openxmllib is a set of tools that deals with the new ECMA 376 office file formats known as OpenXML.
http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/standards/Ecma-376.htm
OpenXML format is actually used by Microsoft Office 2007. Apple iWork'08 and OpenOffice 2.2 have filters to use this format too.
mimetypes module.These examples say all::
import openxmllib doc = openxmllib.openXmlDocument(path='office.docx')
Raises a ValueError on not supported office files.
doc.mimeType 'application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document' doc.coreProperties # Keys may depend on application {'title': u'blah...', u'creator': u'John Doe', ...} doc.extendedProperties # Keys may depend on application {'Words': u'312', 'Application': u'Your favorite word processor', ...} doc.customProperties # May return an empty mapping {'My property': u'My value', ...} doc.allProperties # Merges core+extended+custom properties (see above) {...} doc.indexableText(include_properties=False) u'all the words of that document body' doc.indexableText(include_properties=True) u'all the words of that document body and all properties values'
Standard mimetypes package extensions ::
import mimetypes mimetypes.guess_type('somedoc.docx') ('application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document', None) mimetypes.guess_type('somecalc.xlsx') ('application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet', None) mimetypes.guess_type('someslides.pptx') ('application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.presentationml.presentation', None)
Document factory signatures::
We have the path for the office file
doc = openxmllib.openXmlDocument(path='office.docx')
We have a file object for the office file
fh = open('office.docx', 'rb') doc = openxmllib.openXmlDocument(file_='office.docx')
We have the URL for the office file
doc = openxmllib.openXmlDocument(url='http://domain.tld/office.docx')
Xe have the raw data of the office file
import mimetypes docx_mimetype = mimetypes.guess_type('office.docx') body = open('office.docx', 'rb').read() doc = open(data=body, mime_type=docx_mimetype)
Note that if you're not running a Python application, you may get the indexable
text from a document with the openxmlinfo.py console utility. Just type::
$ openxmlinfo --help
Copyright (c) 2008 Gilles Lenfant
This software is subject to the provisions of the GNU General Public License, Version 2.0 (GPL). A copy of the GPL should accompany this distribution. THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND ANY AND ALL EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES ARE DISCLAIMED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF TITLE, MERCHANTABILITY, AGAINST INFRINGEMENT, AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE
More details in the COPYING file included in this package.
This software is in production quality, has been tested on Mac OSX, Linux and Windows with Python 2.4, Python 2.5, lxml 1.3.6 and lxml 2.2.
It should work on other platforms, with Python 2.6, perhaps with other versions of lxml.
Using the usual setuptools command::
$ [sudo] easy_install openxmllib
Note that this will install the excellent lxml egg too if not already done.
From now you can "import openxmllib" in your Python apps and use the "openxmlinfo" command line utility.
Be aware that most text data coming from the various openxmllib services might be us-ascii or Unicode. This is a side effect of lxml (bug or feature ?). It's up to your application to convert these texts to the appropriate charset.
We do not actually handle exceptions due to malformed XML or various unexpected structures. You should handle the various (potential) problems in a try (...) except (...) block in your application.
You should grab openxmllib with your subversion client from its repository at Google code <http://code.google.com/p/openxmllib/source/checkout>_.
Then::
$ cd /where/you/installed/openxmllib $ python setup.py develop
Note that testing does not require the installation::
$ cd tests $ python runalltests.py
Use the issue tracker provided from the project site <http://code.google.com/p/openxmllib/>_.