using python to edit a word file?

[Anthra Norell]

No one could do it any better. Good for you! - Frederic

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From: "John Salerno" <johnjsal at NOSPAMgmail.com>
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Sent: Friday, August 11, 2006 4:08 PM
Subject: Re: using python to edit a word file?


> Anthra Norell wrote:
> > John,
> >
> >       I have a notion about translating stuff in a mess and could help you with the translation. But it may be that the
conversion
> > from DOC to formatted test is a bigger problem. Loading the files into Word and saving them in a different format may not be a
> > practical option if you have many file to do. Googling for batch converters DOC to RTF I couldn't find anything.
> >       If you can solve the conversion problem, pass me a sample file. I'll solve the translation problem for you.
> >
> > Frederic
>
> What I ended up doing was just saving the Word file as an XML file, and
> then writing a little script to process the text file. Then when it
> opens back in Word, all the formatting remains. The script isn't ideal,
> but it did the bulk of changing the numbers, and then I did a few things
> by hand. I love having Python for these chores! :)
>
>
>
> import re
>
> xml_file = open('calendar.xml')
> xml_data = xml_file.read()
> xml_file.close()
>
> pattern = re.compile(r'<w:t>(\d+)</w:t>')
>
> def subtract(match_obj):
>      date = int(match_obj.group(1)) - 1
>      return '<w:t>%s</w:t>' % date
>
> new_data = re.sub(pattern, subtract, xml_data)
>
> new_file = open('calendar2007.xml', 'w')
> new_file.write(new_data)
> new_file.close()
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