from http://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/141905/force-ogr-to-use-specific-driver-for-input-format

ogr-convert.py

import sys
from osgeo import ogr
def main(in_file, in_format, out_file, out_format):
    in_ds = ogr.GetDriverByName(in_format).Open(in_file)
    out_ds  = ogr.GetDriverByName(out_format).CopyDataSource(in_ds, out_file)

if __name__ == '__main__':
    main(*sys.argv[1:])