Opening word document with read mode using python
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Solution 1
You will find some very useful samples on the following page:
Opening a Word document read-only can be achieved like this, True
as the third parameter to Application.Documents.Open
tells Word to open the document read-only.
import win32com.client, pythoncom, time
def word(wordfile):
pythoncom.CoInitializeEx(pythoncom.COINIT_APARTMENTTHREADED)
myWord = win32com.client.DispatchEx('Word.Application')
myDoc = myWord.Documents.Open(wordfile, False, False, True)
...
myDoc.Close()
myWord.Quit()
del myDoc
del myWord
pythoncom.CoUninitialize()
Solution 2
You could always fire up the msword from command line via the command (Check the path)
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office\Winword.exe /f <filename>
I am assuming you want to launch msword and not read word docs programmatically. To be able to do that from python, you need to use the facility to run external commands.
see : http://docs.python.org/library/os.html#os.system
import os
os.system(command)
or:
import os
import subprocess
subprocess.call(command)
See the various command line options at:
Author by
AKM
Updated on June 14, 2022Comments
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AKM about 2 years
I have a python applicaiton that need to luanch a word document . is there any option to luanch a word document with read mode only from python ?