On 14 Mar, 14:52, Shane Geiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My take was that this is an effort to manipulate these files without the > need for Open Office, so I replied as follows: > > Open Office files (.ods and perhaps .odt) are just zipped or gzipped. > Unpack that and then you are dealing with manipulating regular text > files--probably HTML.
No. What I was trying was to build a fake OpenOffice server, so that we could interact with a fake OpenOffice during our unit test. As OpenOffice is quite slow, this could improve the performance of our unit tests. However, your suggestion is interesting. Ciao PaoloB -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list