Hello everyone. Hopefully someone can point me in the right direction here. I'm wanting to write a script to open microsoft word and adobe pdf documents . Here is a little background:
At the company where I work (an inspection firm) all reports of inspections are saved as word files. A particular file may contain many reports named like this; 12345A-F.doc. This file contains six reports. Most inspections also require a technique which is saved as a pdf. The pdf filename is the identification of the part being inspected. My command line script will work like this: The user is asked whether they are searching for a technique or a report > Find (c)ertificate or (t)echnique if they press 'c' they are then asked to enter certificate number. Using the code below, no enter is needed import msvcrt print "Find (t)echnique or (c)ertificate: " ch = msvcrt.getch() if ch == 't': print "Enter technique number: " elif ch == 'c': print "Enter certificate number: " else: print 'command not understood.' raw_input() Obviously I will need to wrap this into a function. What I need to know how to do is save the two directories where the files are stored. if 'c' is selected I want to use that as the directory to search. same for techniques. What is the best way to do this? I would also like to have the text autocomplete after maybe three characters, is this possible? Am I correct in thinking all files would have to be stored in a list for this to work? As you can tell I am new to programming. I don't want someone to write this script for me, just give me some pointers to get going (maybe a tutorial on the net). Unless someone really wants to write it of course! Many thanks and sorry for the long post. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
