win32.com problem to unprotect a word document

[Christian Lehmann]

Hello,

I´m trying to unprotect a word document with python for reading all form fields.
But it doesn´t work.

Here´s a simple code sample:


wordapp = win32com.client.Dispatch("Word.Application")
docfile = wordapp.Documents.Open(file)

protecttype = docfile.ProtectionType # protected delivers 2
docfile.Unprotect
protecttype = docfile.ProtectionType # anyway 2

# do some work

docfile.Protect
protecttype = docfile.ProtectionType # anyway 2


So someone please tell me, whats my fault?

best regards
Christian

 

[Peter Hansen]

I´m trying to unprotect a word document with python for reading all form fields.
But it doesn´t work.

Here´s a simple code sample:

wordapp = win32com.client.Dispatch("Word.Application")
docfile = wordapp.Documents.Open(file)

protecttype = docfile.ProtectionType # protected delivers 2
docfile.Unprotect
protecttype = docfile.ProtectionType # anyway 2

# do some work

docfile.Protect
protecttype = docfile.ProtectionType # anyway 2

So someone please tell me, whats my fault?

Is it possible you should actually be *calling* Unprotect
and Protect, instead of just retrieving their values?
To do that, make sure you include the parentheses as in

docfile.Unprotect()

Python is not VB...

-Peter