passing the return caharacter to word

[dittytwo]

Howdy there
I have the below code
<code>
import win32com.client ,pythoncom
pythoncom.CoIni tializeEx(pytho ncom.COINIT_APA RTMENTTHREADED)
wordapp = win32com.client .Dispatch("Word .Application") # Create new Word Object
wordapp.Visible = 1 # Word Application should`t be visible
worddoc = wordapp.Documen ts.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.CoUni nitialize()
</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:
[code=python]
import os, win32com.client , pythoncom
pythoncom.CoIni tializeEx(pytho ncom.COINIT_APA RTMENTTHREADED)
wordapp = win32com.client .Dispatch("Word .Application")
wordapp.Visible = 1
worddoc = wordapp.Documen ts.Add()
worddoc.Content .Text="=rand(20 0,99)" + os.linesep
worddoc.Content .MoveEnd()
worddoc.SaveAs( "C:\\wiggle.doc ")
worddoc.Close()
wordapp.Quit()
pythoncom.CoUni nitialize()
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