[Tutor] counting no of words

[Liam Clarke]

I'd take the easy way out and use winPython's COM objects to open the
doc in word, and save it as .txt
and then - 

f=file("doc.txt",'r')
j=f.read()
j=j.split(" ")
print len(j)



On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 13:59:16 -0500, Roger Merchberger
<zmerch at 30below.com> wrote:
> Rumor has it that Bill Mill may have mentioned these words:
> >[snip]
> >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.
> 
> Another option would be to write the python program from within
> OpenOffice.org if it's available -- it has facilities of opening and
> accessing word documents as well.
> 
> >I'd help you with that, but I'm on linux.
> 
> Most things I do are on Linux as well; but the OpenOffice solution should
> work equally well on either platform.
> 
> HTH,
> Roger "Merch" Merchberger
> 
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