Processing org-mode files in python

Question

I have lots of documentation in emacs org-mode files. I would like to process some of those files from my python programs. One useful example would be to import org tables into python dictionaries or lists, or to look for a specific section in an org file (marked by the * special characters). I think it would not be difficult to code this org-mode-importer in python, but I would like to avoid reinventing the wheel. I have found Orgnode, but it seems this is not actively maintained.

Are there any alternatives out there?

Answer 1

There is PyOrgMode and NEO:

https://github.com/bjonnh/PyOrgMode

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/2011-04/msg00598.html

Tools for parsing .org files are generally listed here: http://orgmode.org/worg/org-tools/index.html