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Python: Reading and Writing to a Word (.doc) file

June 19th, 2009

Need to install ‘antiword’ debian package then read output from CLI.

import commands
output=commands.getoutput('antiword /home/jesterj/Desktop/test.doc')
print output

Mary had a little lamb. Mary had a little lamb. Mary had a little lamb.
Mary had a little lamb. Mary had a little lamb. Mary had a little lamb.
Mary had a little lamb. Mary had a little lamb. Mary had a little lamb.
Mary had a little lamb. Mary had a little lamb. Mary had a little lamb.
Mary had a little lamb. Mary had a little lamb. Mary had a little lamb.
Mary had a little lamb. Mary had a little lamb. Mary had a little lamb.
Mary had a little lamb. Mary had a little lamb. Mary had a little lamb.
Mary had a little lamb. Mary had a little lamb. Mary had a little lamb.
Mary had a little lamb. Mary had a little lamb. Mary had a little lamb.
Mary had a little lamb. Mary had a little lamb. Mary had a little lamb.

Write to word…

Pretty easy here. Just write to a file and append with .doc.

f=open("newfile.doc","wr")
f.write(output)
f.close()

Badow!

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