Hello people. I have some questions

[Paul Rubin]

"Alex Martelli" <aleax at aleax.it> writes:
> The doubts come mainly from Python considerations - it's very easy
> to drive/automate Microsoft Office via Python, but I still haven't
> managed to do the same for StarOffice; if it does have COM at all,
> it's a strange object model, and I can't find good docs, examples,
> etc.  Admittedly I haven't looked very deeply.  But maybe they're
> not COM- centric *because* they're portable... it's easier for MS
> (they do have COM on the Mac too, although I think it's not
> available to 3rd parties).  

There's a faction (Gnome) trying to automate GNU/Linux desktop apps
with CORBA, which is like COM only fancier.  I don't know of any
attempts yet to gnomify Star Office though.

>Maybe I should look into the Java (Jython) side of things instead.

That would be going to the dark side.