Comments on: pycups

By: tim

tim — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 15:14:01 +0000

cups.Connection.getDests() returns a dict whose values each have an is_default attribute. That will reflect the user’s personal default setting.

To find out which is the default printer for a given server, examine the ‘printer-type’ attribute in the return value of cups.Connection.getPrinterAttributes(): it is a bitmap, and CUPS_PRINTER_DEFAULT is one of those bits.

By: zac

zac — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 15:01:11 +0000

Thank you for writing this wonderful module. It defiantly will make my time working with printer abstractions in UNIX much easier for my program.

Question though: is there any attribute or method to find what is marked as the default printer with? All I could find in the documentation about it is CUPS_PRINTER_DEFAULT, but I’m not sure where this is exposed in the actual printer attribute list.

By: paul

paul — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 04:28:42 +0000

I left a comment about building this on FreeBSD: turns out its in the ports collection there.

By: paul

paul — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 03:29:56 +0000

I seem to be missing some bits. This is on a FreeBSD 8.2 system with cups 1.5.2 installed. I’ll reinstall it in a minute and see if that clears it up. Not sure about the python bindings for avahi which I guess I also need…

Running pycups-1.9.61/setup.py -q bdist_egg –dist-dir /tmp/easy_install-QdiX77/pycups-1.9.61/egg-dist-tmp-zYalnU
cupsmodule.c:23:23: error: cups/cups.h: No such file or directory
cupsmodule.c:24:27: error: cups/language.h: No such file or directory
In file included from cupsmodule.c:26:
cupsmodule.h:25:28: error: cups/adminutil.h: No such file or directory
cupsmodule.h:53:2: error: #error pycups requires CUPS 1.2.x
In file included from cupsmodule.c:33:
cupsconnection.h:24:23: error: cups/http.h: No such file or directory
In file included from cupsmodule.c:33:
cupsconnection.h:37: error: expected declaration specifiers or ‘…’ before ‘http_t’

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By: Philippe

Philippe — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 09:39:25 +0000

cups is 1.4.4-6ubuntu2.3

I’m using ubuntu 10.04.3 LTS.

By: tim

tim — Sat, 03 Sep 2011 20:34:03 +0000

That’s a pycups version number; what about CUPS? pycups just returns whatever CUPS tells it to.

By: Philippe

Philippe — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 22:57:18 +0000

Sorry I forgot to mention: 1.9.51-0ubuntu2
If that’s fixed in a newer version sorry for bothering, otherwise I’ll open a ticket when I get back at the office on monday.

By: tim

tim — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 17:41:15 +0000

The registration is the Fedora Project registration. What version of CUPS are you running? That might very well make the difference...