On Thu, Jul 20, 2006 at 01:25:26PM -0400, Andrew Robert wrote:
> I have a text file being broadcast on a web site and I would like to download
> it
> and save it as an MS Word file.
...
> I found the following code on the web that comes close to what i need.
>
> It:
>
> - - reads a file passed to it
> - - opens word file
> - - dumps the read contents to the file
> - - places a time stamp at the end signaling when the conversion occured
>
> What is is missing is how to automate saving/closing the file when the
> conversion is complete.
>
> Would someone be able to help fill in the blanks on this?
I've never played with Win32 COM before, but your message inspired me to
learn. :-)
A quick Google later, and it seems you need to add the following methods
to the CWordAutomate class:
def Save(self, sFilename):
self.m_obDoc.SaveAs(sFilename)
def Quit(self):
self.m_obWord.Quit()
Then in your code:
> sLastMsg = time.strftime( "document generated on %c", time.localtime() )
> obWord.WriteLine( sLastMsg, "Times New Roman", 14, 0 )
Add these:
obWord.Save("blah.doc")
obWord.Quit()
On my system, "blah.doc" was saved as
C:\Documents and Settings\ozzmosis\My Documents\blah.doc
So you'll need to specify an absolute pathname if you want it to be
saved somewhere else.
I picked this up from:
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-win32/2002-June/000396.html
I guess we both need to subscribe to the python-win32 mailing list... ;-)
Regards
Andrew
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