On 7/5/2012 5:12 AM, Thomas Jollans wrote:
On 07/05/2012 09:26 AM, Karim wrote:
Look at PyUNO from OpenOffice very large API:
http://www.openoffice.org/api/docs
I use to create all my documention (Excell, Writer, etc...) on this API.
Note that this API is for OpenOffice, not Microsoft Excel. However, as
you probably know, you can open most Excel files in OpenOffice's Calc.
I urge you to consider LibreOffice, a fork of OpenOffice that is now
broadly considered its successor. Its API can also be used in Python
http://api.libreoffice.org/
Can you explain or point to a document that explains how to actually do
that? (use the LibreOffice api from Python?)
The only mention of Python on that page is under examples. (and there is
no mention of python in the installation guide, even as an option, nor
in the development tools doc, ).
On the example page, there is only one example and unlike all the other
sections, no 'Additional information' linking to a 'Python Language
binding'.
In toolpanel.py of the example, there is
import uno
import unohelper
from com.sun.star.ui import XUIElementFactory
from com.sun.star.ui import XUIElement
from com.sun.star.ui.UIElementType import TOOLPANEL as unoTOOLPANEL
from com.sun.star.ui import XToolPanel
but where are the python-importable modules and com package and their
docs and how does one get them? There are not in the example directory.
The IDL reference only covers the com.sun.star stuff.
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Looking with Google, I see that some linux distros include
LibreOffice-PyUno in thier package managers. Not helpful for Windows.
The LibreOffice installation includes a python2.6.1 installation under
LO.../program/ with pyuno pre-installed. No doc that I could see.
However, when running it
>>> import com.sun.star.ui
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
ImportError: No module named com.sun.star.ui
Oh, there is a trick to it
>>> import uno
>>> import unohelper
>>> import com.sun.star.ui
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
File "uno.py", line 263, in _uno_import
return _g_delegatee( name, *optargs, **kwargs )
ImportError: No module named com.sun.star.ui
>>> from com.sun.star.ui import XToolPanel
So import uno and unohelper and one can import objects from the
non-existent com.sun.star.ui module. Still, a lot more is needed to
understand even the example.
--
Terry Jan Reedy
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