Create, read, and update Microsoft Word .docx files.
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Author: Steve Canny
Requires Python: >=3.9
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Development Status
- 5 - Production/Stable
Environment
- Console
Intended Audience
- Developers
License
- OSI Approved :: MIT License
Operating System
- OS Independent
Programming Language
- Python
- Python :: 3
- Python :: 3.7
- Python :: 3.8
- Python :: 3.9
- Python :: 3.10
- Python :: 3.11
Topic
- Office/Business :: Office Suites
- Software Development :: Libraries
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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