A quick (one and a half day) Django and JQuery web hack to order spekkoek (Lapis Legit) via the office networks. Its a very simple application. It takes your order, validates the entry, calculates the total price, saves it to the DB and sends both me and the customer and e-mail notification. Most of the [...]

The open document format is technically a JAR file [1] that encapsulates (mostly) XML files. The file content such as headers, paragraphs, table cells can be easily accessed using Python’s built-in zipfile and xml libraries (e.g. DOM, Xpath). Imagine all the possibility you can do!
In this example I will open an ODS (spreadsheet) file [...]