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+#!/Users/pldms/Development/Projects/2020/david-matthews-galaxy/guppy_basecaller/env/bin/python3
+
+# $Id: rst2odt_prepstyles.py 8346 2019-08-26 12:11:32Z milde $
+# Author: Dave Kuhlman <dkuhlman@rexx.com>
+# Copyright: This module has been placed in the public domain.
+
+"""
+Fix a word-processor-generated styles.odt for odtwriter use: Drop page size
+specifications from styles.xml in STYLE_FILE.odt.
+"""
+
+# Author: Michael Schutte <michi@uiae.at>
+
+from __future__ import print_function
+
+from lxml import etree
+import sys
+import zipfile
+from tempfile import mkstemp
+import shutil
+import os
+
+NAMESPACES = {
+    "style": "urn:oasis:names:tc:opendocument:xmlns:style:1.0",
+    "fo": "urn:oasis:names:tc:opendocument:xmlns:xsl-fo-compatible:1.0"
+}
+
+
+def prepstyle(filename):
+
+    zin = zipfile.ZipFile(filename)
+    styles = zin.read("styles.xml")
+
+    root = etree.fromstring(styles)
+    for el in root.xpath("//style:page-layout-properties",
+                         namespaces=NAMESPACES):
+        for attr in el.attrib:
+            if attr.startswith("{%s}" % NAMESPACES["fo"]):
+                del el.attrib[attr]
+
+    tempname = mkstemp()
+    zout = zipfile.ZipFile(os.fdopen(tempname[0], "w"), "w",
+                           zipfile.ZIP_DEFLATED)
+
+    for item in zin.infolist():
+        if item.filename == "styles.xml":
+            zout.writestr(item, etree.tostring(root))
+        else:
+            zout.writestr(item, zin.read(item.filename))
+
+    zout.close()
+    zin.close()
+    shutil.move(tempname[1], filename)
+
+
+def main():
+    args = sys.argv[1:]
+    if len(args) != 1:
+        print(__doc__, file=sys.stderr)
+        print("Usage: %s STYLE_FILE.odt\n" % sys.argv[0], file=sys.stderr)
+        sys.exit(1)
+    filename = args[0]
+    prepstyle(filename)
+
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    main()