Python and Open Office

[Colin J. Williams]

Marco Bizzarri wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 10:04 PM, Greg Lindstrom <gslindstrom at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I would like to create and manipulate Open Office documents using Python.  I
>> have found then UNO Python page and odfpy modules which seem to be exactly
>> what I need.  The odfpy manual is, to me, a confusing list of objects and
>> methods (it's an impressive list!), but does not have much in the way of how
>> to use them.  For example, I can open a spreadsheet and create new pages
>> (there's a nice example near the back of the manual) but I can't figure out
>> how to open an existing spreadsheet and list the names of the individual
>> sheets ("tabs").
>>
>> I have written an application that access Microsoft Excel and creates
>> reports for work, but would like to create an Open Source version using Open
>> Office and release it to the community (and maybe get a talk at PyCon :-).
>>
>> Is there someone here who can help me out, or is there an appropriate
>> mailing list for me to join?
> 
> Ciao, Greg.
> 
> you should check with the openoffice.org mailing list; I think what
> you are looking for is the api mailing list for openoffice; you could
> try to get the OpenOffice.org developers guide and the SDK, and check
> it (but it is not a little work)
> 
> Regards
> Marco
> 
> 
>> Thanks
>>
>> --greg
>>
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>>
> 
> 
> 
Greg,

If you follow this up, I hope that you 
will post info to c.l.p
and let us know whether the UNO 
interface is Python 2.5 compatible.

The last time I looked it was set for 
2.3 or 2.4.

Colin W