Analysing Word documents (slow) What's wrong with this code please!

[jmdeschamps]

Anyone has a hint how else to get faster results?
(This is to find out what was bold in the document, in order to grab
documents ptoduced in word and generate html (web pages) and xml
(straight data) versions)

# START ========================
import win32com.client
import tkFileDialog, time

# Launch Word
MSWord = win32com.client.Dispatch("Word.Application")

myWordDoc = tkFileDialog.askopenfilename()

MSWord.Documents.Open(myWordDoc)

boldRanges=[] #list of bold ranges
boldStart = -1
boldEnd = -1
t1= time.clock()
for i in range(len(MSWord.Documents[0].Content.Text)):
if MSWord.Documents[0].Range(i,i+1).Bold : # testing for bold
property
if boldStart == -1:
boldStart=i
else:
boldEnd= i
else:
if boldEnd != -1:
boldRanges.append((boldStart,boldEnd))
boldStart= -1
boldEnd = -1
t2 = time.clock()
MSWord.Quit()

print boldRanges #see what we got
print "Analysed in ",t2-t1
# END =====================================

Thanks in advance

[Daniel Dittmar]

jmdeschamps wrote:

Anyone has a hint how else to get faster results?
(This is to find out what was bold in the document, in order to grab
documents ptoduced in word and generate html (web pages) and xml
(straight data) versions) [...] for i in range(len(MSWord.Documents[0].Content.Text)):
if MSWord.Documents[0].Range(i,i+1).Bold : # testing for bold

Perhaps you can search for bold text. The Word search dialog allows this.
And when you use the keybord macro recording feature of Word, you can
probably figure out how to use that search feature from Python.

Daniel

[Eric Brunel]

jmdeschamps wrote:

Anyone has a hint how else to get faster results?
(This is to find out what was bold in the document, in order to grab
documents ptoduced in word and generate html (web pages) and xml
(straight data) versions)

# START ========================
import win32com.client
import tkFileDialog, time

# Launch Word
MSWord = win32com.client.Dispatch("Word.Application")

myWordDoc = tkFileDialog.askopenfilename()

MSWord.Documents.Open(myWordDoc)

boldRanges=[] #list of bold ranges
boldStart = -1
boldEnd = -1
t1= time.clock()
for i in range(len(MSWord.Documents[0].Content.Text)):
if MSWord.Documents[0].Range(i,i+1).Bold : # testing for bold
property
Vaguely knowing how pythoncom works, you'd really better avoid asking for
MSWord.Documents[0] at each loop step: pythoncom will fetch the COM objects
corresponding to all attributes and methods you ask for dynamically and it may
cost a lot of time. So doing:

doc = MSWord.Documents[0]
for i in range(len(doc.Content.text)):
if doc.Range(i,i+1).Bold: ...

may greatly improve performances.
if boldStart == -1:
boldStart=i
else:
boldEnd= i
else:
if boldEnd != -1:
boldRanges.append((boldStart,boldEnd))
boldStart= -1
boldEnd = -1
t2 = time.clock()
MSWord.Quit()

print boldRanges #see what we got
print "Analysed in ",t2-t1
# END =====================================

Thanks in advance

--
- Eric Brunel <eric dot brunel at pragmadev dot com> -
PragmaDev : Real Time Software Development Tools - http://www.pragmadev.com

[jmdeschamps]

"Daniel Dittmar" <da************@sap.com> wrote in message news:<bu**********@news1.wdf.sap-ag.de>...

jmdeschamps wrote:

Anyone has a hint how else to get faster results?
(This is to find out what was bold in the document, in order to grab
documents ptoduced in word and generate html (web pages) and xml
(straight data) versions) [...]

.... Perhaps you can search for bold text. The Word search dialog allows this.
And when you use the keybord macro recording feature of Word, you can
probably figure out how to use that search feature from Python.

Daniel

Thanks Paul Prescod suggested this also, works great!

Jean-Marc

[jmdeschamps]

Eric Brunel <er*********@N0SP4M.com> wrote in message news:<bu*********@news-reader4.wanadoo.fr>...

jmdeschamps wrote:

Anyone has a hint how else to get faster results?
(This is to find out what was bold in the document, in order to grab
documents ptoduced in word and generate html (web pages) and xml
(straight data) versions)

# START ========================
import win32com.client
import tkFileDialog, time

# Launch Word
MSWord = win32com.client.Dispatch("Word.Application")

myWordDoc = tkFileDialog.askopenfilename()

MSWord.Documents.Open(myWordDoc)

boldRanges=[] #list of bold ranges
boldStart = -1
boldEnd = -1
t1= time.clock()
for i in range(len(MSWord.Documents[0].Content.Text)):
if MSWord.Documents[0].Range(i,i+1).Bold : # testing for bold
property

Vaguely knowing how pythoncom works, you'd really better avoid asking for
MSWord.Documents[0] at each loop step: pythoncom will fetch the COM objects
corresponding to all attributes and methods you ask for dynamically and it may
cost a lot of time. So doing:

doc = MSWord.Documents[0]
for i in range(len(doc.Content.text)):
if doc.Range(i,i+1).Bold: ...

may greatly improve performances.

....
Thanks, it does! And using builtin Find object also.

Jean-Marc