multiple .doc to .docx file conversion using python

Question

I want to convert all the .doc files from a particular folder to .docx file.

I tried using the following code,

import subprocess
import os
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Answer 1

I prefer to use the glob module for tasks like that. Put this in a file doc2docx.py. To make it executable, set chmod +x. And optionally put that file in your $PATH as well, to make it available "everywhere".

#!/usr/bin/env python

import glob
import subprocess

for doc in glob.iglob("*.doc"):
    subprocess.call(['soffice', '--headless', '--convert-to', 'docx', doc])

Though ideally you'd leave the expansion to the shell itself, and call doc2docx.py with the files as arguments, like doc2docx.py *.doc:

#!/usr/bin/env python

import subprocess
import sys

if len(sys.argv) < 2:
    sys.stderr.write("SYNOPSIS: %s file1 [file2] ...\n"%sys.argv[0])

for doc in sys.argv[1:]:
    subprocess.call(['soffice', '--headless', '--convert-to', 'docx', doc])

As requested by @pyd, to output to a target directory myoutputdir use:

#!/usr/bin/env python

import subprocess
import sys

if len(sys.argv) < 2:
    sys.stderr.write("SYNOPSIS: %s file1 [file2] ...\n"%sys.argv[0])

for doc in sys.argv[1:]:
    subprocess.call(['soffice', '--headless', '--convert-to', 'docx', '--outdir', 'myoutputdir', doc])