[python-win32] UnicodeEncodingError when print a doc file

[Tim Roberts]

cool_go_blue wrote:
> THanks. After replying to your email, I thought about what you wrote,
> just like what you said in the following email. So, for a normal text
> file, just use open to read the file. There is no need to use the way
> to open a word document via win32com to read a text file. Will
> win32com consume more time and memory to read a text file than the
> general input stream?
>

It's not win32com that is the issue.  Win32com is merely the gateway you
are using to run Microsoft Word.  And yes, Microsoft Word consumes a
HELL of a lot more time and memory than reading a file using Python I/O.

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Tim Roberts, timr at probo.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.