How to use PyOD with OpenOffice?

PyOD is a super simple python library (https://github.com/mirkonasato/pyodconverter).

It has one command usage

> "C:\Program Files (x86)\OpenOffice 4\program\python-core-2.7.18" DocumentConverter.py test.odt test.pdf  

This should convert test.odt to a pdf. I'm using my own PC, not a VPS.

I can't figure out how to use this command. I've been at this for literally 3 hours, I have no experience in python or the command line.

I've tried running this from `cmd.exe

cd /  python "C:\Program Files (x86)\OpenOffice 4\program\python-core-2.7.18" DocumentConverter.py test.odt test.pdf  

But it gave me this error:

C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.9_qbz5n2kfra8p0\python.exe: can't find '__main__' module in 'C:\\Program Files (x86)\\OpenOffice 4\\program\\python-core-2.7.18'  

And I have absolutely NO idea what it means, google was not helpful.

I've also tried

cd Program Files (x86)\OpenOffice 4\program\python-core-2.7.18  DocumentConverter.py test.odt test.pdf  

All this did was try and open the file. It asked me what I wanted to open it with, I chose Python.exe and it simply opened a python terminal then closed it immediately, and no new file was in python-core-2.7.18 so I'm assuming it didn't work.

So THEN I tried opening python.exe directly from python-core-2.7.18 and running DocumentConverter.py test.odt test.pdf but it said I had invalid syntax.

I literally have no idea how to use python. This is for a PHP project, I'm literally only using this one small fraction of python.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/66467135/how-to-use-pyod-with-openoffice March 04, 2021 at 09:05AM