How do you convert a Word Document into very simple html in Python?
It depends how much formatting and images you're dealing with. I do one of a couple things:

Google Docs: Probably the closest you'll get to the original formatting and usable HTML.
Markdown: Abandon formatting. Paste it into a plain text editor, run it through Markdown and fix the rest by hand.
Every now and then I receive a Word Document that I have to display as a web page.  I'm currently using Django's flatpages to achieve this by grabbing the html content generated by MS Word.  The generated html is quite messy.  Is there a better way that can generate very simple html to solve this issue using Python?