Writting to file from file and printing using python

[atanas Cosmas Nkelame]

Hi,
I have  a task to write a program that will do the following.

1. Run from the command line
2. Get data from a text file (say data.txt) in the following format

  111:      peter                  edward          peter at yahoo.com
  112:      John                  sykes            john at yahoo.com
  113:     edward                mutaga         edward at yahoo.com

3. Write that data in a prepared word document (which is essentially a
letter)

4. Print the letters for the listed people (111,112,113) on a printer.

The program has to be called like this

c:/program/callprogram   inputfile.txt   c:/program/data/outputfile.doc

Someone has done this in VB.Net but I would like to do it in python.

Can someone advice on the best way to start.


atanas

atanas
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