using python to edit a word file?

[Anthra Norell]

John,

      I have a notion about translating stuff in a mess and could help you with the translation. But it may be that the conversion
from DOC to formatted test is a bigger problem. Loading the files into Word and saving them in a different format may not be a
practical option if you have many file to do. Googling for batch converters DOC to RTF I couldn't find anything.
      If you can solve the conversion problem, pass me a sample file. I'll solve the translation problem for you.

Frederic


----- Original Message -----
From: "John Salerno" <johnjsal at NOSPAMgmail.com>
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Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2006 9:08 PM
Subject: Re: using python to edit a word file?


> John Salerno wrote:
>
> > But if I save the file to text, won't it lose its formatting?
>
> It looks like I can save it as an XML file and it will retain all the
> formatting. Now I just need to decipher where the dates are in all that
> mess and replace them, just using a normal text file! :)
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