Opening MS Word files via Python

[Simon Brunning]

faizan at jaredweb.com (Fazer) wrote in message 
> I am curious as to how I should approach this issue.  I would just
> want to parse simple text and maybe perhaps tables in the future. 
> Would I have to save the word file and open it in a text editor?  That
> would kind of....suck...  Has anyone else tackled this issue?

See http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/279003

Cheers,
Simon B.