Getting the list of available printers/classes - from Pure Python?

[Erik Forsberg]

Hi!

I'd like to get hold of the list of available printers from a python
program, without using a C extension (that is, I don't want to link to
the standard cups C libraries). The reason for not linking to the C
libraries is that it's much harder to distribute the software when it
needs C extensions (which are python-version-specific, IIRC).

Any ideas on this? Is there a binary always present on a host with
CUPS installed I can run and parse output from? Should I talk directly
to CUPS on 127.0.0.1:631 and issue a IPP request? 

Thanks,
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