.doc viewer/reader

[Alex Martelli]

"Ulf Engstrøm" <ulf.engstrom at b2b-link.com> wrote in message
news:04c501c00dd8$fe07b970$978647c1 at DEVELOPMENT...
> Has anyone done anything on reading .doc-files with Python? There are a
> number of viewers out there, but I havn't been able to find any open
source.
> I think this would be very good, and I'm willing to work on it if needed.
> But if it's done already I save myself a lot of job;). If it's not done,
> anyone knows of any open source projects in any language doing this? Or
some
> kind of spec on how the .docs are saved?

I believe Sun's StarOffice (now version 5.2, right?) is now
open source, and also able to read and write Word documents
(which I assume is what you mean by .doc), so one could start
having a look there...


Alex