Read from Windows Address Book (.wab file format) ?

[詹光耀]

On May 13, 3:57 am, rynt <rynt... at gmail.com> wrote:
> On May 12, 11:30 am, 詹光耀 <yaogz... at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi all!
>
> > I wonder if there's any Python module that could read from .wab file.
> > I googled but found nothing useful. Any idea? Thanks :)
>
> > Rio
>
> Hi Rio,
>
> Don't know if there's a python module for this, but this link,
>
> http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms629361.aspx
>
> defines the MS API for the address book, so you could roll your own.
>
> If all you need is to read the data though, you could export the
> address data into a CSV file (Python DOES have a module for this) or
> VCard format.  IIRC, someone on this newsgroup was talking about VCard
> just the other day.
>
> HTH
>
> rynt

Hi Rynt,

Thanks for your help :) I looked the MSDN page but it seemed that at
least I need Windows to use its DLL, while unfortunately I'm on Linux.
I need to read (and later write) .wab from other Win users.

CSV is fine, and that's how I am doing it right now. The problem is I
cannot automate the process of exporting .wab to .csv on Linux. Also,
I lose all the identity-property mapping in .wab since .csv is really
a flat 2D table.

Any other suggesions? :)


Rio