Read word tables

[Christian Tismer]

Rameshwari wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I would like to read a ms-word document using python.
> 
> Basically the word document contains number of tables  and the rows 
> in each table do not have same number of columns.

If you have Office Professional Edition 2003, you can save
your Word files in XML format. Then, you can use an XML
parser to easily get at any structure. It might be simpler
to use than using all the COM objects directly.
(Well, the structures aren't that easy, of course).

ciao - chris

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