[Tutor] open files other than text?

[Karthik Gurumurthy]

> I have windows 98 Python2.2. Can you open files other than text files. I
> tried to open a .doc file and just got a line of giberish. What kind of
> things can be opened?

if you want to read a MS word file then you might want to use
python bindings for windows (www.activestate.com).
Then using MS word objects, the way it is normally used in VB / VBScript,
you can
work with word documents.

But i c'd'nt find active python release for 2.2
There is one for 2.1 though. It ships with modules win32com and
win32com.client
and so on..

karthik


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