#!/usr/bin/python
import zipfile, re
rx_stripxml = re.compile("<[^>]*?>", re.DOTALL|re.MULTILINE)
def convert_OO(filename):
       """Converts an OO file into text"""
       zf = zipfile.ZipFile(filename, "r")
       data = zf.read("content.xml")
       zf.close()
       data = " ".join(rx_stripxml.sub(" ", data).split())
       return data
if __name__=="__main__":
       import sys
       if len(sys.argv)>1:
               for docname in sys.argv[1:]:
                               try:
                                       print 'Text of', docname, ':'
                                       print convert_OO(docname)
                               except:
                                       print "That file doesn't exist, or is not a .odt"
       else:
               print 'Call with paths to openoffice doc files to see Text form.'