Antoine De Groote wrote: > I have a word document containing pictures and text. This documents > holds several 'ABCDEF' strings which serve as a placeholder for names. > Now I want to replace these occurences with names in a list (members). I > open both input and output file in binary mode and do the > transformation. However, I can't open the resulting file, Word just > telling that there was an error. Does anybody what I am doing wrong?
The Word document format probably contains some length information about paragraphs etc. If you change a string to another one of a different length, this length information will no longer match the data and the document structure will be hosed. Possible solutions: 1. Use OLE automation (in the python win32 package) to open the file in Word and use Word search and replace. Your script could then directly print the document, which you probably have to do anyway. 2. Export the template document to RTF. This is a text format and can be more easily manipulated with Python. > for line in doc: I don't think that what you get here is actually a line of you document. Due to the binary nature of the format, it is an arbitrary chunk. Daniel -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
