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.

Libraries are collections of shared code. They're common in Python, where they're also called "modules," but they're also ...