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Create, read, and update Microsoft Word .docx files.

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  • License: MIT License (MIT)
  • Author: Steve Canny
  • Tags docx, office, openxml, word
  • Requires: Python >=3.7
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python-docx

python-docx is a Python library for reading, creating, and updating Microsoft Word 2007+ (.docx) files.

Installation

pip install python-docx

Example

>>> from docx import Document

>>> document = Document()
>>> document.add_paragraph("It was a dark and stormy night.")
<docx.text.paragraph.Paragraph object at 0x10f19e760>
>>> document.save("dark-and-stormy.docx")

>>> document = Document("dark-and-stormy.docx")
>>> document.paragraphs[0].text
'It was a dark and stormy night.'

More information is available in the python-docx documentation

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