Learning to use Python zipfile module with docx files

ziptest.py

#!/usr/bin/python

import os
import os.path
import zipfile
from datetime import datetime
from re import sub

sourceFile = zipfile.ZipFile('text.docx')

list = sourceFile.namelist()

publicDir = os.getenv("TMP")
timestamp = datetime.now().isoformat()
timestamp = sub("[:.]", "", timestamp)
dirname = "xtemp-jgv-" + timestamp
tempDir = os.path.join(publicDir, dirname)

os.mkdir(tempDir)

sourceFile.extractall(tempDir)

documentPath = os.path.join(tempDir, "word")

document = open(os.path.join(documentPath, "document.xml"), "a+")

document.seek(2666)
print document.read(466)
print document.tell()

sourceFile.close()