Python vs Visual Basic

[Alex Martelli]

Orange Free wrote:

> In article <mailman.65.1066064125.2192.python-list at python.org>, Robert
> Brewer wrote:
> 
>> So I might recommend doing it all in VBA within Word. I hear that
>> overwrought, overdesigned, over-featured mass has some sort of Forms
>> functionality.
> 
> It does, and it is all very clunky.  Simply creating linked fields to
> automate updates to names that occur several times through a document
> causes my disk to thrash!
> 
> Nevertheless, I will probably take your advice.  I've attempted
> similar tasks using LaTeX and Python, BTW, and I found it pretty easy
> to do what I wanted.  What is more, LaTeX output looks better than its
> Word equivalent.  But I need documents that my secretaries can work
> with after the documents have been generated by my Python script, and
> LaTeX source would just fry their brains.  So I'm stuck with Word.

You could use Python and RTF: Microsoft Word can load RT docs, and
even save in RTF, without too much trouble.


Alex