Linux Journal

Extract and Parse ODF Files with Python

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 ...
Linux Journal

Convert SpreadSheets to CSV files with Python and pyuno, Part 2

Using the SSConverter class that we developed last week, which used the OORunner class from the week before that, this week we'll create a Python function that allows us to use spreadsheets as if they ...
Android Authority

How to open CSV files in Python - store and retrieve large data sets

A CSV file is a “comma-separated values” file. In plain English, this is a text file that contains an unusually large amount of data. More often than not, this is used in order to create databases of ...
Computerworld

Getting started with Usenets – a better way to download large files

When you’re looking to download a large file on the web, say an Ubuntu distribution, a common method of doing so is via BitTorrent. BitTorrent is a P2P file sharing protocol (popularized by Napster) ...