Although bash scripts are regularly maligned, they do have a certain simplicity and ease of creation that makes them hard to resist. But sometimes you really need to do some heavy lifting in another ...

Once in the Python shell, commands are run as they are typed. This can be quite helpful in diagnosing problems on systems that require unique processing of some sort.

The first step in picking out the names of the files in an ODF file requires unzipping the file itself. Fortunately, Python has built-in support for dealing with this endeavor with the zipfile module.