Docx Python
Marietta Bleasdale
Word documents contain formatted text wrapped within three object levels. Lowest level- Run objects, Middle level- Paragraph objects and Highest level- Document object.
So, we cannot work with these documents using normal text editors. But, we can manipulate these word documents in python using the python-docx module.
The Run.italic attribute captures whether the text is formatted as Italic, but it doesn't know if a text block has a Style that is rendered in Italic, but it can be detected by checking Run.style.name (if you know what styles in your document are rendered in Italics.
Your best bet is going about unzipping the docx which will create a directory called word. Within that directory is document.xml, from there you would need to learn the xml structure and key words to be able to read just an italicized text. once you complete that all you have to do is pull the text string from xml file.
The first function is essentially a find and replace function to use python with a docx file. The second file recursively searches through a file path to find docx files to search. The details of the regex aren't relevant (I think). It essentially searches for different date formats. It works as I want it to and shouldn't impact on my issue.
When a document is passed to docx_replace_regex that function iterates through paragraphs, then runs and searches the runs for my regex. The issue is that the runs sometimes break up a single line of text so that if the doc were in plaintext the regex would capture the text, but because the runs break up the text, the text isn't captured.
Initially, I joined the inline array so that it would be equal to "10th day of May, 2020" but then I can't replace the run with the new text because my inline variable is a string, not a run object. Even if I kept inline as a run object it would still replace only one part of the text I'm looking for.
This works, but all character formatting is lost. A more sophisticated approach finds the offset of the search phrase, maps that to runs, and then splits and rejoins runs as necessary to change only those runs containing the search phrase.
I can't figure out how to delete a table row in python-docx. Specifically, my tables come in with a header row and a row that has a special token stored in the text of the first cell. I search for tables with the token and then fill in a bunch of rows of the table. But how do I delete row 1, which has the token, before adding new rows?I tried
The first one fails with an unrecognized function (the documentation refers to this function in the Microsoft API, but I don't know what that means).The second one fails because table.rows is read-only, as the documentation says.
This is my first question on SO and would like to thank you all in advance for any help. I'm pretty new to python, python-docx and programming in general. I am working on a GUI program (using PyQt) to generate a contract in docx format. I have most things working, but here is the problem I am having. I need to align text both left and right on the same line. In word, I believe this is done by changing to a right indent and hitting tab, then adding the text. However, I cannot figure out how to do this in python-docx. I tried:
I am also generating contracts with python-docx and came across this same issue. Until the right-aligned tab stop feature is added, my workaround is to format the line as a table, using a custom table style.
More exactly, a .docx document is a Zip archive in OpenXML format: you have first to uncompress it.
I downloaded a sample (Google: some search term filetype:docx) and after unzipping I found some folders. The word folder contains the document itself, in file document.xml.
Basically, you just open the docx file (which is a zip archive) using zipfile, and find the content in the 'document.xml' file in the 'word' folder. If you wanted to be more sophisticated, you could then parse the XML, but if you're just looking for a phrase (which you know won't be a tag), then you can just look in the XML for the string.
A problem with searching inside a Word document XML file is that the text can be split into elements at any character. It will certainly be split if formatting is different, for example as in Hello World. But it can be split at any point and that is valid in OOXML. So you will end up dealing with XML like this even if formatting does not change in the middle of the phrase!
You can of course load it into an XML DOM tree (not sure what this will be in Python) and ask to get text only as a string, but you could end up with many other "dead ends" just because the OOXML spec is around 6000 pages long and MS Word can write lots of "stuff" you don't expect. So you could end up writing your own document processing library.
It is available as .NET and Java products. Both can be used from Python. One via COM Interop another via JPype. See Aspose.Words Programmers Guide, Utilize Aspose.Words in Other Programming Languages (sorry I can't post a second link, stackoverflow does not let me yet).
A docx is just a zip archive with lots of files inside. Maybe you can look at some of the contents of those files? Other than that you probably have to find a lib that understands the word format so that you can filter out things you're not interested in.
I am trying to build a new app on my website to allow me to push form data to a doc and figured the python-docx library would be perfect to accomplish this. I got onto my virtual work environment and then I pip installed it as so
I read on github the same error happening and the lxml lib needed to be uninstalled. I tried that, didn't work. Uninstalled python-docx and reinstalled (which reinstalled lxml), didn't work. Not sure what else to do at this point.
Have you activated your virtualenv in the terminal? If you're starting a Bash console, then you need to run workon your-env-name to do that before running python your-script.py; if you're running it using the "Run" button in the editor, you should put a "hashbang" at the start of the file -- see the last example on this help page.
Can we take a look at your account, and maybe try to run the file in question in the context of your account? We can do that from our admin interface, but we always ask for permission before looking at your files and data.
-- note that there's no space in the line, it's just the complete path to the Python interpreter in your virtualenv. I've made that change to your file /home/thecodingrecruiter/the-coding-recruiter-website/tcr/anewtestfile.py and you can see that it works now.
The idea is to begin to create an example of the document you want to generate with microsoft word, it can be as complex as you want :pictures, index tables, footer, header, variables, anything you can do with word.Then, as you are still editing the document with microsoft word, you insert jinja2-like tags directly in the document.You save the document as a .docx file (xml format) : it will be your .docx template file.
The usual jinja2 tags, are only to be used inside the same run of a same paragraph, it can not be used across several paragraphs, table rows, runs.If you want to manage paragraphs, table rows and a whole run with its style, you must use special tag syntax as explained in next chapter.
There is a specific case for font: if your font is not displayed correctly, it may be because it is definedonly for a region. To know your region, it requires a little work by analyzing the document.xml inside the docx template (this is a zip file).To specify a region, you have to prefix your font name this that region and a column:
Important : When you use r it removes the current character styling from your docx template, this means that ifyou do not specify a style in RichText(), the style will go back to a microsoft word default style.This will affect only character styles, not the paragraph styles (MSWord manages this 2 kind of styles).
Important : RichText objects are rendered into xml before any filter is appliedthus RichText are not compatible with Jinja2 filters. You cannot write in your template something like r .Only solution is instead to do any filtering into your python code when creating the RichText object.
You just have to specify the template object, the image file path and optionally width and/or height.For height and width you have to use millimeters (Mm), inches (Inches) or points(Pt) class.Please see tests/inline_image.py for an example.
A template variable can contain a complex subdoc object and be built from scratch using python-docx document methods.To do so, first, get the sub-document object from your template object, then use it by treating it as a python-docx document object.See example in tests/subdoc.py.
It is not possible to dynamically add images in header/footer, but you can change them.The idea is to put a dummy picture in your template, render the template as usual, then replace the dummy picture with another one.You can do that for all medias at the same time.Note: the aspect ratio will be the same as the replaced imageNote2 : Specify the filename that has been used to insert the image in the docx template (only its basename, not the full path)
It is not possible to dynamically add other medias than images in header/footer, but you can change them.The idea is to put a dummy media in your template, render the template as usual, then replace the dummy media with another one.You can do that for all medias at the same time.Note: for images, the aspect ratio will be the same as the replaced imageNote2 : it is important to have the source media files as they are required to calculate their CRC to find them in the docx.(dummy file name is not important)
MS Word 2016 will ignore \t tabulations. This is special to that version.Libreoffice or Wordpad do not have this problem. The same thing occurs for linebeginning with a jinja2 tag providing spaces : They will be ignored.To solve these problem, the solution is to use Richtext:
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