[Tutor] Question about Python and Windows' Apps

[Pijus Virketis]

[alan]
>>Although Mark Hammond will probably not agree I'd personally=
 use
>>VBScript or even VBA from within Word to do this kind of=
 thing.
>>Right tool for the job etc...

[jeff]
>Having written (admittedly smallish) scripts to autogenerate=
 Excel
>spreadsheets from flat-file data in both VB and Python, I=
 *much*
>prefer working in Python

Just to throw in my two cents here. :) 

Having worked a bit both with VB/VBA and Python, I would say that=
 if 
the extent of the project is wholly to do with Office objects and=
 
tasks, then VB is a reasonable alternative: it's probably just a=
 
matter of taste and existing skills.  

However, if the task involves bringing in non-Office data - a 
scientific instrument, command line optimisation software,=
 whatever - 
Python just makes things much easier. As Jeff mentioned, things=
 like 
tuples, lists and Python libraries are great "glue" tools.

Oh, and if you want to do OOP, VB is really not the best=
 language, to 
put it mildly. But that's a different subject, I guess. ;)

Cheers, 

Pijus

-- 
"Anyone attempting to generate random numbers by deterministic=
 means 
is, of course, living in a state of sin." -- John Von Neumann