Opening a word file in Python [not quite solved]

[ajkadri]

Folks,

I have written a word frequency counter program in python that works well for .txt files; but it cannot handle .DOC files.
Can someone help me to resolve this issue???

[bartonc]

Folks,

I have written a word frequency counter program in python that works well for .txt files; but it cannot handle .DOC files.
Can someone help me to resolve this issue???

If you can make a macro or write Visual Basic in order to get Word to do the work you need, then there is a way to get word to give you the info from PythonWin using the COM extentions. I haven't used COM yet, but can point you to some examples if this seem like the way you want to go with this.

[fuffens]

I thought that the following COM function calls would solve the problem, but it turns out that the Words.Count operation not just counts the number of words. It also counts the number of separators such as .,?

from win32com.client import *
word = Dispatch("Word.Application")
doc = word.Documents.Open(r'path to your doc file')
print doc.Words.Count
 

You can however convert your Word document to unformatted text using the following code. And then you can use your word counter as for normal text files.

from win32com.client import *
word = Dispatch("Word.Application")
doc = word.Documents.Open(r'path to your doc file')
print doc.Content.Text
 

As pointed out in the previous message you need the win32com module. It is included in the PythonWin installation.

/Fredrik

[bartonc]

I thought that the following COM function calls would solve the problem, but it turns out that the Words.Count operation not just counts the number of words. It also counts the number of separators such as .,?

from win32com.client import *
word = Dispatch("Word.Application")
doc = word.Documents.Open(r'path to your doc file')
print doc.Words.Count
 

You can however convert your Word document to unformatted text using the following code. And then you can use your word counter as for normal text files.

from win32com.client import *
word = Dispatch("Word.Application")
doc = word.Documents.Open(r'path to your doc file')
print doc.Content.Text
 

As pointed out in the previous message you need the win32com module. It is included in the PythonWin installation.

/Fredrik

Thanks again, Fredrik,
Barton

[bartonc]

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