Bruno Desthuilliers wrote:
> 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 ?
No, I don't. Sounds interesting... What is this feature called?
>>> 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()
>>>>>
