ezodf 0.1.0

A Python package to create/manipulate OpenDocumentFormat files.

Abstract

ezodf is a Python package to create new or open existing OpenDocumentFormat files to extract, add, modify or delete document data.

a simple example (doesn’t work yet):

import ezodf

ods = ezodf.ODS('testspreadsheet.ods')
sheet = ezodf.Spreadsheet(ods, 'SHEET')
sheet[0, 0] = ezodf.Cell("Textcell")
ods.save()

for more examples see: /examples folder

Dependencies

• lxml <http://codespeak.net/lxml/> for painless serialisation with prefixe declaration (xlmns:prefix=”global:namespace:specifier”) in the root element, and declarations for unused prefixes are also possible.

The target platform is Python 3.1+, no Python 2 support planned at this time.

Installation

with pip:

pip install ezodf

or from source:

python setup.py install

Tests

run tests

python runtests.py

on Windows:

runtests.bat

Documentation

http://packages.python.org/ezodf

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ezodf can be found on bitbucket.org at:

http://bitbucket.org/mozman/ezodf

NEWS

Version 0.1.0 - 02 Januar 2011

• Pre-Alpha version

• open/saveas ODF documents

• modify meta data