There is a tool and API for Python that lets you create documents and spreadsheets directly from a program. The module is called odfpy .

Download and install odfpy: It can be downloaded from the subversion repository:

svn export https://svn.forge.osor.eu/svn/odfpy/trunk odfpy

Then change to the odfpy directory:

cd odfpy

To install, run

python setup.py install

From easy_install:

easy_install odfpy

In this case it downloads the package and installs it.

The tools that get installed are:

  • mailodf - Sends an ODF file as html
  • odf2xhtml - Converts ODF to (X)HTML
  • odf2xml - Creates an xml document from the ODF file
  • odf2mht - Converts ODF to HTML
  • odf2war - Converts ODF to a KDE web archive
  • odfimgimport - Imports images from the document
  • odflint - Checks the file
  • odfmeta - Lists or changes the metadata information of an ODF file
  • odfoutline - Shows the document outline
  • odfuserfield - Lists or changes the user-declared fields in an ODF file
  • xml2odf - Creates an ODF file from an XML file

The "Hello World" example. Run the Python command interpreter Import the Opendocument modules Import the text document handling module Use the object that handles text documents Write Hello world in an element Add the element to the document Save the document

>>> from odf.opendocument import OpenDocumentText
>>> from odf.text import P
>>> textdoc = OpenDocumentText()
>>> p = P(text="Hola mundo!")
>>> textdoc.text.addElement(p)
>>> textdoc.save("holamundo",True)

The following image shows the document that was created.

Python ODF

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