My wife is a writer, which today means she uses a word processing program. It's a sophisticated, powerful program—OpenOffice.org Writer—but occasionally it won't do something that she wants it to do.

The Open Document Format (ODF) Alliance is designed for sharing information between different word processing applications. This article highlights the basic structure of ODF files, some internals of ...

What's your favorite module for manipulating (mostly reading) XML data with Python?Sample code or any sort of tutorial info would also be appreciated.

Hi,I was trying to learn Python a couple of months ago. I stopped and now I'm trying restart again.I am trying to parse out a text file with some data to produce a list with the unique cases. My ...

The “horrible thing” in developer Erik Rose’s talk from this year’s PyCon is the Mediawiki syntax, but that’s just a jumping off point for one of the best overviews of data parsing that ...