[Baypiggies] Python and MS Word docs; Argghhhhhhhhh......

Aahz aahz at pythoncraft.com
Wed Feb 3 05:43:02 CET 2010


On Tue, Feb 02, 2010, Glen Jarvis wrote:
>
> One of the things that has been requested of us to take an MS word
> file that has been used to enter plain text. The file should be
> uploaded via webpage (done). The file should strip out all of the MS
> Word formatting so that we process only the text (And why not just
> upload a plain text file again? hmm? This is what is *really* wanted).

What I'd recommend is installing antiword and calling it from Python.
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import antigravity


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