How to build Aspose.Words for Python via Java

To create “Aspose Words for Python via Java” package we use JCC

How to build JCC on Windows

Download and install JRE (it is not necessary because you can use %JDK_HOME%\jre)

JCC requires JDK so download and install it.

Download and install Python

Make sure Java’s and Python’s paths are on the environment variables list

Install wheel

>  pip install wheel

Download and install Microsoft Visual C++ Compiler for Python 2.7

Download and unzip JCC

Run following command in JCC directory

JCC-3.0> python .\setup.py build

Then run install command

JCC-3.0> python .\setup.py install

Check JCC egg has been installed

    > ls C:\Python27\Lib\site-packages\JCC-3.0-py2.7-win-amd64.egg

How to build JCC on Ubuntu

Check if python is installed

> python
Python 2.7.13 (default, Jan 19 2017, 14:48:08)
[GCC 6.3.0 20170118] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.

In order to get things working make sure Java is installed, if it isn’t then do following:

> sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/java
\> sudo apt-get update
\> sudo apt-get install oracle-java8-installer

Install svn

> sudo apt install subversion

Check out JCC’s sources

> svn co https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/lucene/pylucene/trunk/jcc jcc

Make sure that setuptools is installed

> pip install setuptools

Run following commands

> jcc/$ python setup.py build
\> jcc/$ python setup.py install --prefix=~/.local

Make sure JCC has been installed

> ls /home/_username_/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages

How to create “Aspose Words for Python via Java” python package

Make sure Java, JCC and wheel are installed.

Then run create_aspose_words.py with appropriate arguments

> python .\create_aspose_words.py .\Aspose.Words.jdk16.jar 17.8 aspose_words

The first argument is the path to the Aspose.Words jar;

The second is the version;

The third is the python module name.

Result .whl file will be saved in .\dist directory

How to install “Aspose Words for Python via Java” on Windows

1. Download and install JRE. We use JRE x64 version because our .whl was built for Windows x64;
2. Download and install Python. At the moment 2.7 version is used;
3. Add following path variables to the environment variables list:
   
4. Then install the .whl package create_aspose_words.py
   

   > pip install .\aspose_words-17.8-cp27-none-win_amd64.whl
   

How to install “Aspose Words for Python via Java” on Ubuntu

Check if python is installed

> python
Python 2.7.13 (default, Jan 19 2017, 14:48:08)
[GCC 6.3.0 20170118] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.

In order to get things working make sure Java is installed, if it isn’t then do following:

> sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/java
\> sudo apt-get update
\> sudo apt-get install oracle-java8-installer

Make sure pip is installed if it isn’t then

> sudo apt install python-pip

Run terminal and use following command:

> pip install --prefix=~/.local aspose_words-17.8-cp27-none-linux_x86_64.whl

How to use “Aspose Words for Python via Java”

> python
import aspose_words
aspose_words.initVM(aspose_words.CLASSPATH)
d = aspose_words.Document()
db = aspose_words.DocumentBuilder(d)
db.writeln('Hello world!')
d.save('/home/slava/test.docx')