Re: [Gnumed-devel] Python API for office applications

[Tim Churches]

Horst Herb wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 18:59, Karsten Hilbert wrote:
>
> > > What about making an open-office monitored document application
> >
> > ...
> >
> >
> > > You could possibly make it C++ to python, or java to python , or maybe
> > > soon they'll wrap their api in python.
> >
> > Don't they already have that ? AbiWord has it, that much I
> > know.
>
>
> Yes, AbiWord has it, and so has OpenOffice 
> (http://udk.openoffice.org/python/python-bridge.html)
>
> I found the OO UNO-Python bridge a bit cumbersome to use.

And as slow as a wet weekend. We tried using it to programmatically 
create nicely formatted statistical tables, after struggling with 
DocBook and XSLT. It worked, sort of, but was unusably slow for our 
purposes. In the end we decided to tell users just to cut-and-paste HTML 
tables from their browser into their word processor and do the final 
formatting of the tables themselves.


Tim C

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