How to parse an ical file and export event to a list?

I have an iCal file. I would like to be able to extract all events into a list. Is there any tools or library that can do it easily? (e.g. han开发者_StackOverflowdle the time zone info)

Python is the preferred language, but any interpretive language is OK.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/dday-ical/ is quite a good .net library for ical. the object model is really good as well