extracting text from MS word files in python
linux, ms-word, python
Solution
You could make a subprocess call to antiword. Antiword is a linux commandline utility for dumping text out of a word doc. Works pretty well for simple documents (obviously it loses formatting). It's available through apt, and probably as RPM, or you could compile it yourself.
Problem
for working with MS word files in python, there is python win32 extensions, which can be used in windows. How do I do the same in linux? Is there any library?