A script that imports a lot of UTF-8-encoded VCF files into a single list for use with programs like Excel

vcard-import.py

# Import a [large] group of UTF-8-encoded VCF files into a single
# "<name>\t<phone>\r\n" text file for use with Excel or other programs.
#
# Requires: vobject (which requires dateutil)
#
# Author: IceDragon <icedragon@quickfox.org>
#         http://www.icerealm.org/contact

import vobject
from glob import glob

DATA = "./VCF"
OUTPUT = "imported.txt"


###--# Functions #--###########################################################
def extractData(fname):
        vobj = vobject.readOne(open(fname,'r'), allowQP=True)
        result = {"name": vobj.getChildValue("fn", "").encode('utf-8'), "tel": []}
        for child in vobj.getChildren():
                if child.name == "TEL":
                        result['tel'] += [ child.value.encode('utf-8') ]
        return result


vcf = glob(DATA + "/*.vcf")
fd  = open(OUTPUT,'w')

for data in map(extractData, vcf):
        if len(data['tel']) > 0:
                for tel in data['tel']:
                        fd.write("%s\t%s\r\n" % (data['name'], tel))
        else:
                fd.write("%s\t\r\n" % (data['name']))

fd.close()
print "OK"