On Oct 3, 9:01 am, Beliavsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I work for a financial company where we run Windows XP and read email > using Microsoft Outlook 2003. I get daily files that come as email > attachments from various counterparties. I save them as h:\firm_name > \yyyymmdd.csv . Would Python be a good tool to automate the process of > saving reports, or would it be more convenient to use a Microsoft > proprietary language such as VB or C#? Of course one factor is one's > relative competence with the various languages.
Python can do it using the PyWin32 package. You'll probably connect to it with COM or ctypes and hack at it that way. Do a Google search for Python and Outlook and you'll find various ideas, such as the ones at this link: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-win32/2008-July/007857.html I recommend giving it a try and if you get stuck, post to the PyWin32 user's group: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32 Mike -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
