[cups.general] Getting the list of available printers/classes - from Pure Python?

[Tim Waugh]

On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 10:11:17AM -0500, Erik Forsberg wrote:

> 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? 

There are at least two CUPS extension modules for Python:

* Fedora Core's printer configuration tool provides one named
  'pycups'

* The new HPLIP project provides one named 'cupsext'

On an up-to-date Fedora Core 4 installation, for instance, you can try
them both out:

import pycups
import cupsext

They are both about as primitive as one another. :-/

As it happens, I am working on a more comprehensive set of Python
bindings for CUPS right now.

Is there anyone else out there doing something similar?

Tim.
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