passing the return caharacter to word

[dittytwo]

Howdy there
I have the below code
<code>
import win32com.client,pythoncom
pythoncom.CoInitializeEx(pythoncom.COINIT_APARTMEN TTHREADED)
wordapp = win32com.client.Dispatch("Word.Application") # Create new Word Object
wordapp.Visible = 1 # Word Application should`t be visible
worddoc = wordapp.Documents.Add() # Create new Document Object
worddoc.Content.Text = "=rand(200,99)"+"/r"
worddoc.Content.MoveEnd
worddoc.SaveAs("c:\wiggle.doc")
worddoc.Close() # Close the Word Document (a save-Dialog pops up)
wordapp.Quit() # Close t
pythoncom.CoUninitialize()
</code>

the problem i have is that it
saves the word doc with "=rand(200,99)/r"
i think that i am expecting too much from the com or word to action this statement in word.
as pressing return after =rand(x,x) gives you "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." quite a few times :D hence filling up a document for testing purposes...

D2

[jlm699]

I'm pretty sure that in Windows the "return" character that you speak of is \r\n. You could alternately use os.linesep to return the end of line character for your OS. Also, C:\wiggle.doc I think should be C:\\wiggle.doc since \ is the escape character in Python. And when you say that visible = 1 should make the application non-visible that is a lie. visible =0 would be invisible, visible = 1 is visible.

Also, for your code tags use [ ] square brackets... you were close! ;)j
Also also, your opening code tag can read code=python to get syntax highlighting!

P.S. I tried your code and had no luck getting Word to automatically generate the text... I think the problem lies within auto completion; however I've never messed with Office com objects before so who knows...

Your code only slightly modified:

import os, win32com.client, pythoncom
pythoncom.CoInitializeEx(pythoncom.COINIT_APARTMENTTHREADED)
wordapp = win32com.client.Dispatch("Word.Application")
wordapp.Visible = 1
worddoc = wordapp.Documents.Add()
worddoc.Content.Text="=rand(200,99)" + os.linesep
worddoc.Content.MoveEnd()
worddoc.SaveAs("C:\\wiggle.doc")
worddoc.Close()
wordapp.Quit()
pythoncom.CoUninitialize()