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pod (Python Open Document)
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Current release: pod (Python Open Document) 0.2.1
Released 2008-06-14 — tested with Plone 2.5, Plone 2.1, Plone 2.0.5, Plone 2.0, Plone 1.0
Many improvements since last version published on PloneGov.org (0.0.3): better XHTML to ODT conversion; implementation of an "else" statement and an "if" expression; minor bugfixes. pod is now also published as eggs on http://pypi.python.org.
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Upcoming and alpha/beta/candidate releases
- Alpha releases should only be used for testing and development.
- Beta releases and Release Candidates are normally released for production testing, but should not be used on mission-critical sites.
- Always install on a separate test server first, and make sure you have proper backups before installing.
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Project pagepod (python open document) is a library that allows to easily generate documents whose content is dynamic. The principle is simple: you create an ODF (Open Document Format) text document (with OpenOffice Writer 2.0 or higher for example), you insert some Python code at some places inside it, and from any program written in Python, you can call pod with, as input, the OpenDocument file and a bunch of Python objects. pod generates another ODF text document (ODT) that contains the desired result. If you prefer to get the result in another format, pod can call OpenOffice in server mode to generate the result in PDF, DOC, RTF or TXT format.
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