Re: [Tutor] creating distribution lists in outlook

2010-05-14 Thread Alan Gauld
"Pirritano, Matthew" wrote It does seem like the python solution is going to be too labor intensive. As with many such issues I thought it would be a fun challenge to see if I could get it to work. : ) You probably could, but there is another way. Python does not have Outlook's limitations

Re: [Tutor] creating distribution lists in outlook

2010-05-13 Thread Pirritano, Matthew
-Original Message- From: tutor-bounces+mpirritano=ochca@python.org [mailto:tutor-bounces+mpirritano=ochca@python.org] On Behalf Of Alan Gauld Sent: Thursday, May 13, 2010 12:19 AM To: tutor@python.org Subject: Re: [Tutor] creating distribution lists in outlook "Luke Paireep

Re: [Tutor] creating distribution lists in outlook

2010-05-13 Thread Pirritano, Matthew
ty Health Care Agency (714) 568-5648 -Original Message- From: Luke Paireepinart [mailto:rabidpoob...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2010 5:00 PM To: Pirritano, Matthew Cc: tutor@python.org Subject: Re: [Tutor] creating distribution lists in outlook On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 6:32 PM, Pirr

Re: [Tutor] creating distribution lists in outlook

2010-05-13 Thread Alan Gauld
"Luke Paireepinart" 1000+ contacts in one contacts folder. When you create the distribution lists a number get cut off if you try to put too many into the list. But there is no indication of how many went into the list. I think Luke made a good point. This is usually done by businesses at

Re: [Tutor] creating distribution lists in outlook

2010-05-12 Thread Luke Paireepinart
On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 6:32 PM, Pirritano, Matthew wrote: > Here's the thing. You can import them all at once. But then you have > 1000+ contacts in one contacts folder. When you create the distribution > lists a number get cut off if you try to put too many into the list. But > there is no indic

Re: [Tutor] creating distribution lists in outlook

2010-05-12 Thread Pirritano, Matthew
tthew Cc: tutor@python.org Subject: Re: [Tutor] creating distribution lists in outlook On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 6:20 PM, Pirritano, Matthew wrote: > That's the way we've been doing it. The issue, and inspiration for > pythonification is that the list has 1000+ emails. Outlook only allows &

Re: [Tutor] creating distribution lists in outlook

2010-05-12 Thread Luke Paireepinart
On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 6:20 PM, Pirritano, Matthew wrote: > That's the way we've been doing it. The issue, and inspiration for > pythonification is that the list has 1000+ emails. Outlook only allows > about 50 per list, which leads to the need to create 20+ separate lists, > which takes a consid

Re: [Tutor] creating distribution lists in outlook

2010-05-12 Thread Pirritano, Matthew
ch Analyst IV Medical Services Initiative (MSI) Orange County Health Care Agency (714) 568-5648 -Original Message- From: Luke Paireepinart [mailto:rabidpoob...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2010 4:16 PM To: Pirritano, Matthew Cc: tutor@python.org Subject: Re: [Tutor] creating distribu

Re: [Tutor] creating distribution lists in outlook

2010-05-12 Thread Luke Paireepinart
On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 12:44 PM, Pirritano, Matthew wrote: > Pythonistas, > > I’m trying to find a way to get data into outlook. Specifically to create > distribution lists. Have you considered looking into Outlook's Import feature for address books? It may be possible to import data from csv's

Re: [Tutor] creating distribution lists in outlook

2010-05-12 Thread Alan Gauld
"Pirritano, Matthew" wrote I've found ways to get contact and lists out of outlook but none on how to get stuff in. Is there a manual to address such python functions? Is it part of win32? You can use COM to communicate with Outlook via win32com. However the COM interface to Outlook was fair