Open parrallel problem

[Clement_2000]

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Hello,
I'm making a piece of software to control my printer by sending commands to it.
But now I got a big problem, which is that the printer wont do anything until I close the port.

Here is an example :

from tkinter import *

printer = open("/dev/lp0", "w")

win = Tk()
win.geometry("100x100")

def send(text):
    printer.write(str(text)) #Print text
    printer.write("\x0A\x0D") #Line feed and carriage return

textEntry = Entry(win)
textEntry.pack()

sendText = Button(win, text="Print", command=lambda:send(textEntry.get()))
sendText.pack()

win.mainloop()

printer.close()

When pressing any button, nothing happens until I close the window.
Any idea ?

Thank you in advance,
Clément.

[woooee]

The printer is buffered, so try a printer.flush(). This doc says to follow it with os.fsync() https://python-reference.readthedocs.io/...flush.html which may or may not be necessary depending on your OS.

[Clement_2000]

Oh yes, thank you !!
It works with :

from tkinter import *

printer = open("/dev/lp0", "w")

win = Tk()
win.geometry("100x100")

def send(text):
    printer.write(str(text)) #Print text
    printer.write("\x0A\x0D") #Line feed and carriage return
    printer.flush()

textEntry = Entry(win)
textEntry.pack()

sendText = Button(win, text="Print", command=lambda:send(textEntry.get()))
sendText.pack()

win.mainloop()

printer.close()

THANK YOU SO MUCH !