Darren New wrote:

> Jim Henderson wrote:
>> largely because I wouldn't know where to start with COM.
> 
> With the help pages! :-) COM is the substrate that connects things
> together.
> 
> (I think I posted a link recently of someone showing how to use VBScript
> to talk to a DB and put it into Excel, make a chart, and use the clipboard
> to paste it into a word doc.)
> 
> Does OpenOffice actually have any sort of scripting built in, or
> interfaces that you can drive externally?

There is a module called "uno" that lets you talk to OpenOffice from Python.

http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Python

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