pycups

This page is about the Python bindings for the CUPS API, known as pycups. It was written for use with system-config-printer, but can be put to other uses as well.

Download

Download tarball releases from:
http://cyberelk.net/tim/data/pycups/

Source Code

Fetch the source like this:

git clone git://git.fedorahosted.org/git/pycups.git

or browse it using gitweb.

New releases are announced at freshmeat.

Bug Reporting

Report bugs using the trac interface.

Discussion

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8 Responses to “pycups”

  1. Tim’s Home Page » pycups now accepted into Debian unstable Says:
    May 18th, 2007 at 11:11 am

    [...] just heard that pycups is now included in Debian unstable as python-cups.  Thanks to Otavio Salvador for packaging and [...]

  2. dan Says:
    June 21st, 2007 at 11:45 am

    Hey Tim,

    trying to use pycups on RHEL5 but can’t even get it to build. I get the following;

    [root@gbwtecsuv1008 pycups-1.9.24]# python setup.py install
    running install
    running build
    running build_ext
    building ‘cups’ extension
    gcc -pthread -fno-strict-aliasing -DNDEBUG -O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector –param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -m32 -march=i386 -mtune=generic -fasynchronous-unwind-tables -D_GNU_SOURCE -fPIC -fPIC -I/usr/include/python2.4 -c cupsmodule.c -o build/temp.linux-i686-2.4/cupsmodule.o
    cupsmodule.c: In function ‘cups_require’:
    cupsmodule.c:242: error: ‘VERSION’ undeclared (first use in this function)
    cupsmodule.c:242: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
    cupsmodule.c:242: error: for each function it appears in.)
    cupsmodule.c:272: error: expected ‘)’ before ‘VERSION’
    error: command ‘gcc’ failed with exit status 1

    Any hints?

    Also, in the setup the package is referred to as “cups” rather than “pycups” which will result in an RPM being produced called cups-1.0 which isn’t what you want (I assume).

    TIA

    Cheers

    Dan

  3. tim Says:
    June 25th, 2007 at 10:56 am

    Dan: run ‘make’ to build pycups — the VERSION macro comes from the environment set up by the Makefile.

    For packaging, I use ‘cups’ for the name because I want to import the extension with ‘import cups’.

  4. Tim’s Home Page » pycups API documentation: epydoc? Says:
    September 5th, 2007 at 4:18 pm

    [...] about to start writing some proper API documentation for pycups, and I’ve been looking around for short-cuts. Seems like epydoc is just what I’m after, [...]

  5. tim Says:
    April 28th, 2008 at 12:52 pm

    Now at OpenBSD:
    http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/ports/print/py-cups/

  6. Neoclust Says:
    May 10th, 2008 at 4:46 pm

    Now in mandriva too :

    http://svn.mandriva.com/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/packages/cooker/python-cups/

  7. ZOG Says:
    August 18th, 2008 at 4:40 am

    Is there any example code for pycups / python-cups?

  8. tim Says:
    August 18th, 2008 at 9:22 am

    Yes, it is used extensively by system-config-printer, in particular the cupshelpers.py file.

    There is also documentation for it included in the pycups source tarball: try ‘make doc’.

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