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Why PyCups3 is So Damn Intelligent In my last blog , I shared just how smart PyCups3 is. This time, let’s go one layer deeper and see why it’s so intelligent. But first, let’s warm up with a bit of Python magic. ✨ What the Heck is a Dunder Method? Straight from the Python 3.x docs: Dunder methods (a.k.a. magic methods) are special methods you can define in your classes to give them superpowers. These methods let you make your class objects behave like built-in Python types. They’re called dunder because they start and end with a double underscore — like __init__. ...

Is that really so? PyCups3 is intelligent? Well, short answer is YES. It is intelligent. Damn, sweetheart, you made an AI for PyCups? Not everything that’s intelligent is an AI. An imaginary conversation, between me and my girlfriend. Now, what’s the twist here is, PyCups3 is actually very very intelligent. So, from my last blog post, I detailed how, PyCups2 got lost due to the lack of upgrades and implmentation of new APIs. ...

Representative and generated So long of GSoC and No blog yet? Why Soumya? Yeah, yeah, I know. It’s been a while, and no blog posts yet. But hey, between wrestling with CFFI + C + Python and libcups with its 150+ APIs, blogging kind of took the back seat. But enough excuses - let’s dig into what’s been cooking. A little history (with C in it) Back in the day (almost 15 years ago!), Tim Waugh wrote the first version of pycups as a C extension module for Python. That worked well, but like all old code, it aged… let’s just say, not like fine wine. After Tim, Zdenek took over as maintainer, but with multiple projects of OpenPrinting and other projects in the mix, there wasn’t much room to modernize PyCups2 for him. ...