openoffice-pyuno and external python programs
Hi,
I sent the email below to fedora-devel some time ago; there was no
response. Let's try again with some additional info. :-)
I'm the fedora maintainer of pybliographer. The development version of
pyblio (which I would like to push to the devel repo soon) has the
capability to interact with openoffice through the pyuno component.
(Bibus can do the same.) It can add citations and generate reference list
in the document for example.
The openoffice.org-pyuno package installs uno.py and other files
under /usr/lib/openoffice.org/program/, so with the default installations
and settings importing uno.py from external python programs gives an
import error. Program specific patches could be used probably to add this
'strange' path to pythonpath, but wouldn't be better to make available
these moduls for python at the openoffice level? See below what debian
does.
Any thoughts, ideas?
Zoltan
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Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2007 23:18:19 +0200 (CEST)
From: Zoltan Kota <z.kota(a)gmx.net>
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Subject: openoffice-pyuno and external python programs
Hi,
Files from openoffice.org-pyuno are installed under
/usr/lib/openoffice.org2.0. So, 'import uno' from python gives an import
error. How should we support external programs to use this module? Should
we patch the program to import uno.py from this directory
somehow? Or would be better to change the installation path in the
openoffice.org-pyuno package?
Debian for instance installs
/usr/share/pycentral/python-uno/site-packages/uno.py
/usr/share/pycentral/python-uno/site-packages/unohelper.py
/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/pyuno.so
Zoltan