[Tutor] counting no of words

[Bill Mill]

Sure,

What you need are the win32 extensions for python
(http://starship.python.net/crew/mhammond/win32/Downloads.html), which
contain win32com. Through com, you can access almost anything in
windows. Check out
http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/docs/ActivePython/2.2/PyWin32/html/com/win32com/HTML/QuickStartClientCom.html
for a short com tutorial, and
http://starship.python.net/crew/pirx/spam7/ for a presentation on com
in python.

Once you're connected to a word document, you'll have to figure out
what the command to count the words in the document is, but that's
just a matter of recording a macro in word where you count the words,
then repeating it in python.

I'd help you with that, but I'm on linux.

Peace
Bill Mill
bill.mill at gmail.com


On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 16:37:06 +0530, Gopinath V, ASDC Chennai
<gopinathv at hcltech.com> wrote:
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> hi all, 
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>     Is it possible to write a program in python to calculate the number of
> words in a MS-Word document Page 
> Regards 
> gopi 
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