A quick lil' python script that uses gnumeric's ssconvert and the standard library's csv to, y'know, show me the contents of gnumeric files wif less.

ssshow.py

#!/usr/bin/env python

from os import system
from re import sub
from sys import argv
from csv import reader, writer

def main(filename):
    system('ssconvert -T Gnumeric_stf:stf_csv '+filename+' /tmp/ssconv1.csv')
    read = reader(open('/tmp/ssconv1.csv','r'), 'excel')
    write = writer(open('/tmp/ssconv2.csv','r+'), 'excel-tab')
    for line in read:
         write.writerow(line)
    system('less /tmp/ssconv2.csv')
if __name__ == '__main__':
    main(argv[1])