Launching Windows Programs

[Andres Rosado]

On 02:56 AM 2/26/2003 -0500, python-list-request at python.org feed this fish 
to the sharks:
>I need to launch a Powerpoing presentation from Python and see two ways of
>doing this:
>     A COM interface that Powerpoint might have
>     Launching it through command line
>Does anyone recommend a way to get this done?

If you know the filename in advance (or you can get it easy), then you can 
launch it through command line if you have win32all extensions from Mark 
Hammond.

It would look somthing like this:

win32api.ShellExecute(0, "open", '"' + ppFileName + '"', None, None, 1)

Where ppFileName is the PowerPoint filename. The "" surrounding it is 
because the CL have trouble with spaces in the directory.

If you need to manipulate the presentation, then the COM interface is the 
best alternative.


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