win32.com problem to unprotect a word document

[Peter Hansen]

Christian Lehmann wrote:
> 
> I´m trying to unprotect a word document with python for reading all form fields.
> But it doesn´t work.
> 
> Here´s a simple code sample:
> 
>     wordapp   = win32com.client.Dispatch("Word.Application")
>     docfile   = wordapp.Documents.Open(file)
> 
>     protecttype = docfile.ProtectionType    # protected delivers 2
>     docfile.Unprotect
>     protecttype = docfile.ProtectionType    # anyway 2
> 
>     # do some work
> 
>     docfile.Protect
>     protecttype = docfile.ProtectionType    # anyway 2
> 
> So someone please tell me, whats my fault?

Is it possible you should actually be *calling* Unprotect
and Protect, instead of just retrieving their values?
To do that, make sure you include the parentheses as in

  docfile.Unprotect()

Python is not VB...

-Peter