Where is Word?

[Tim Golden]

[Guy Lateur]
| I need a way to get the path where MS Word/Office has been 
| installed. I need 
| to start Word from a script (see earlier post), but it 
| doesn't work if I 
| don't know its path. So "os.system("winword.exe %s" % 
| fileName)" doesn't 
| always work; I need to say "os.system("C:\Program Files\Microsoft 
| Office\Office10\winword.exe %s" % fileName)".

While this doesn't answer the question you're asking, I
believe it does solve the problem you're facing. Relying
on the fact that the Microsoft Office products will
have associated themselves as the default (Open) action
with files of the appropriate extensions, you can use
os.startfile:

<code>
import os

os.startfile ("c:/temp/blah.doc")
</code>

HTH
TJG

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