Accessing Microsoft Word from Python

[Mickel Grönroos]

Hi!

I'm fiddling with Python for Windows (normally using Linux) and as a part
of that I want to try to make a simple word frequency list generator to be
used in conjunction with Microsoft Word. Does anybody have any good
pointers on where I can find information about accessing Word-documents
(or other Microsoft Office applications) from Python? To be more specific,
I want to be able to:

- get the text content of the full Word document
- define a callback in Python that is called every time a user enters a
character into the text of a Word document
- get the last two graphical word tokens before the current position of
the insertion cursor in the text of the Word document.

Cheers!

/Mickel

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Mickel Grönroos, application specialist, linguistics, Research support, CSC
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