OpenOffice Python Scripting

Nov 04, 2009 13:08

Playing around with the Python functionality in OpenOffice today. After doing a "Find File" to work out where everything sits in the tree structure, I found this:



The section above adds a "Hello World" to the end of a document. I guess there's a guide to the internal API online, it'll be interesting to see how easily you can throw data around in "Calc", the spreadsheet.

I've been considering extending the Erlang-C (Queueing Theory - used for working out how long the waiting times will be if you're running a service with finite capacity) functions that I wrote for Resolver One to take in general queueing theory. Given that the two work in Python, it'd be easy to make them available for both platforms.

programming, resolver one, python, queueing theory, openoffice

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