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). 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?
>
> Oh, and is this approach pythonic anyway? (I have a strong Java background.)
>
> 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:
> while line.find('ABCDEF') > -1:
> try:
> line = line.replace('ABCDEF', members[counter], 1)
> docout.write(line)
> counter += 1
> except:
> docout.write(line.replace('ABCDEF', '', 1))
> else:
> docout.write(line)
>
> doc.close()
> docout.close()
>
>
DOC files contain housekeeping info which becomes inconsistent if you
change text. Possibly you can exchange stuff of equal length but that
wouldn't serve your purpose. RTF files let you do substitutions and they
save a lot of space too. But I kind of doubt whether RTF files can
contain pictures.
Frederic
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