refactor to take advantage of built-in barcode and encoding in escpos library

screenless/bureau/publications/publications.py

@@ -140,7 +140,7 @@ class Publications(Bureau):
         lat, lon = self.config["latlon"]
         forecast = weather.get_forecast(lat, lon)
         prn = self._get_small_printer()
-        prn.text("CURRENT WEATHER\r\n")
+        prn.textln("CURRENT WEATHER")
         day_count = 0
         current = "Today"
         for period in forecast:
@@ -149,11 +149,9 @@ class Publications(Bureau):
             prn.text(period["day"])
             if period["day"] != current:
                 day_count += 1
-            prn.text(" - " + period["period"] + "\r\n")
-            prn.close()
-            self.print_small_image(period["png"])
-            prn = self._get_small_printer()
-            prn.text(period["mintemp"] + " - " + period["maxtemp"] + "C\r\n")
+            prn.textln(" - " + period["period"])
+            prn.image(period["png"])
+            prn.textln(period["mintemp"] + " - " + period["maxtemp"] + "°C")
             if day_count > 4:
                 break
         prn.ln()

screenless/bureau/publicrelations/publicrelations.py

@@ -155,10 +155,10 @@ class PublicRelations(Bureau):
                                                  tweet_mode="extended")
         out = ""
         for t in tweets:
-            prn.set(text_type="U")
+            prn.set(underline=1)
             username = t["user"]["name"]
             prn.textln(username)
-            prn.set(text_type="NORMAL")
+            prn.set()
             twtext = html.unescape(t["full_text"])
             prn.block_text(twtext)
             prn.ln()
@@ -194,10 +194,10 @@ class PublicRelations(Bureau):
         tweet = self.t.t.statuses.show(id=tweet_id, tweet_mode="extended")
         prn = self._get_small_printer()
 
-        prn.set(text_type="U")
+        prn.set(underline=1)
         username = tweet["user"]["name"]
         prn.textln(username)
-        prn.set(text_type="NORMAL")
+        prn.set()
         twtext = html.unescape(tweet["full_text"])
         prn.block_text(twtext)
 
@@ -306,10 +306,10 @@ class PublicRelations(Bureau):
         toots = self.masto.timeline(limit=count)
         out = ""
         for t in toots:
-            prn.set(text_type="U")
+            prn.set(underline=1)
             username = t.account.display_name
             prn.textln(username)
-            prn.set(text_type="NORMAL")
+            prn.set()
             ttext = bleach.clean(t.content, tags=[], strip=True)
             ttext = html.unescape(ttext)
             prn.block_text(ttext)
@@ -337,9 +337,9 @@ class PublicRelations(Bureau):
 
         notifications = self.masto.notifications(since_id=self.last_mast_notif)
         if len(notifications) > 0:
-            prn.set(text_type="B")
+            prn.set(bold=True)
             prn.textln("NOTIFICATIONS:")
-            prn.set(text_type="NORMAL")
+            prn.set()
 
             # store the last notification id
             self.last_mast_notif = str(notifications[0].id)