Antoine De Groote wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> 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).
Do you know that MS Word already provides this kind of features ?
> 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?
Hand-editing a non-documented binary format may lead to undesirable
results...
> Oh, and is this approach pythonic anyway?
The pythonic approach is usually to start looking for existing
solutions... In this case, using Word's builtin features and Python/COM
integration would be a better choice IMHO.
> (I have a strong Java
> background.)
Nobody's perfect !-)
> Regards,
> antoine
>
>
> import os
>
> members = somelist
>
> os.chdir(somefolder)
>
> doc = file('ttt.doc', 'rb')
> docout = file('ttt1.doc', 'wb')
>
> counter = 0
>
> for line in doc:
Since you opened the file as binary, you should use file.read() instead.
Ever wondered what your 'lines' look like ?-)
> while line.find('ABCDEF') > -1:
.doc is a binary format. You may find such a byte sequence in it's
content in places that are *not* text content.
> try:
> line = line.replace('ABCDEF', members[counter], 1)
> docout.write(line)
You're writing back the whole chunk on each iteration. No surprise the
resulting document is corrupted.
> counter += 1
seq = list("abcd")
for indice, item in enumerate(seq):
print "%02d : %s" % (indice, item)
> except:
> docout.write(line.replace('ABCDEF', '', 1))
> else:
> docout.write(line)
>
> doc.close()
> docout.close()
>
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p in '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'.split('@')])"
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