Python, COM and scripting Word

[Alex Martelli]

"Oleg Broytmann" <phd at phd.pp.ru> wrote in message
news:mailman.997297633.915.python-list at python.org...
> On 7 Aug 2001, Eugene Morozov wrote:
> > I'm playing with Python, COM and Word and I'm very impressed. It's a
> > shame that no such thing exist under Unix.
>
>    Especilly it is shame there is no Word under UNIX.

There many excellent programs that reproduce Word (although
I think they can't be CALLED Word for trademark reasons:-),
such as the word processors in StarOffice and OpenOffice
and many others.  It's surely not a shame that their name
can't reproduce a MS trademark:-) -- not a big problem!

It IS more of a shame that there's no standard way to script
programs -- no standardized Component Object Model, but
rather "fragments of componentization" scattered here and
there (bonobo, XPCOM, ...?).  Under Win32, if you can talk
COM well, there are few relevant limits to what you can
script/automate/control/etc.  No such thing under Unix:-(.


Alex