problem controlling MS Word from Python

[Mark Hammond]

Andrew Brown wrote:

> "Travers Naran" <tnaran at direct.ca> wrote in
> <9plt6r0e3b at enews1.newsguy.com>: 
> 
> 
>>Could you post some sample of your code?  I have Office 97 on my machine
>>(with HTML saving extensions).  I'd be interested to see if it happens
>>in the older Office as well.
>>
>>
>>
>>
> I did post some earlier, and I'm reulctant to clutter the list, but here is 
> the relevant bit again: it is office 97 that I have been using. Some lines 
> have wrapped, but it should be ovious which, and where. I could post the 
> whole lot if you really want, but that seems rude -- and pointless unless 
> you have PyQT.


Is is possible to reduce it down to a small, stand-alone script that we 
can run to see the crash?  If you can get it down to 10 lines or so that 
I can execute and see it die, then there is much more chance of seeing a 
solution...

Mark.


> 
> 
> 
>         def domydir(self):
>         	"Processes all the .doc files in a directory using do_that_thing
> ()"
>         	QApplication.setOverrideCursor(Qt.waitCursor)
>         	try:
>         		self.o=win32com.client.Dispatch('Word.Application')
>         		self.o.Visible=1
>         	except:
>         		warning='OLE fuckup! ' + str(sys.exc_type) + str
> (sys.exc_value)
>         		self.btn_dirpick.setText(warning)
>         	mypath,myfile=os.path.split(str(self.wombat_txt))
>         	os.chdir(mypath)
>         	self.o.ChangeFileOpenDirectory(mypath)
>         	# show what we're doing on the button
>         	for wombats in os.listdir(os.getcwd()):
>         		if string.find(wombats, 'doc')>1:
>         			htmlfile=self.htmlext(wombats)
>         			self.do_that_thing(wombats,htmlfile)
>         		 	print 'have just processed', htmlfile
>         	QApplication.restoreOverrideCursor()
>         
>         
>         And 
>         
>         def do_that_thing(self,docfile,htmlfile):
>         	'''gets an instance of word, to save the docfile as html.'''
>         	try:
>             		self.o.Documents.Add(docfile)
>         		self.o.ActiveDocument.SaveAs(htmlfile,17)
>         		self.o.ActiveDocument.Close()
>         	except:
>         		warn='DO that Thing! ' + str(sys.exc_type) + str
> (sys.exc_value)
>         		self.btn_dirpick.setText(warn)
>         
>         
> 
> 
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