On 04Sep2008 12:54, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | I had previously asked a similar question, | http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/2953d6d5d8836c4b/9dc901da63d8d059?lnk=gst&q=convert+doc+txt#9dc901da63d8d059 | | but at that point I was using Windows and now I am using Linux. | Basically, I have some .doc files that I need to convert into txt | files encoded in utf-8. However, win32com.client doesn't work in | Linux.
I use the "antiword" or "catdoc" commands to convert .doc to text. Call them from popen or subprocess from Python, if you must use Python (I'd just write a shell script for such a task myself unless its embedded in a larger python context). Cheers, -- Cameron Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> DoD#743 http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/ Please do not send me Microsoft Word files. http://en.nothingisreal.com/wiki/Please_don't_send_me_Microsoft_Word_documents -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
