Write tables from Word (.docx) to Excel (.xlsx) using xlsxwriter
BBT
aishan0403 at gmail.com
Wed May 27 13:50:36 EDT 2020
On Thursday, 28 May 2020 01:36:26 UTC+8, Peter Otten wrote:
> BBT wrote:
>
> > I am trying to parse a word (.docx) for tables, then copy these tables
> > over to excel using xlsxwriter. This is my code:
> >
> > from docx.api import Document
> > import xlsxwriter
> >
> > document = Document('/Users/xxx/Documents/xxx/Clauses Sample - Copy v1 -
> > for merge.docx') tables = document.tables
> >
> > wb = xlsxwriter.Workbook('C:/Users/xxx/Documents/xxx/test clause
> > retrieval.xlsx') Sheet1 = wb.add_worksheet("Compliance")
> > index_row = 0
> >
> > print(len(tables))
> >
> > for table in document.tables:
> > data = []
> > keys = None
> > for i, row in enumerate(table.rows):
> > text = (cell.text for cell in row.cells)
> >
> > if i == 0:
> > keys = tuple(text)
> > continue
> > row_data = dict(zip(keys, text))
> > data.append(row_data)
> > #print (data)
> > #big_data.append(data)
> > Sheet1.write(index_row,0, str(row_data))
> > index_row = index_row + 1
> >
> > print(row_data)
> >
> > wb.close()
> >
> >
> > This is my desired output: https://i.stack.imgur.com/9qnbw.png
> >
> > However, here is my actual output: https://i.stack.imgur.com/vpXej.png
> >
> > I am aware that my current output produces a list of string instead.
> >
> > Is there anyway that I can get my desired output using xlsxwriter?
>
> I had to simulate docx.api. With that caveat the following seems to work:
>
> import xlsxwriter
>
> # begin simulation of
> # from docx.api import Document
>
> class Cell:
> def __init__(self, text):
> self.text = text
>
> class Row:
> def __init__(self, cells):
> self.cells = [Cell(c) for c in cells]
>
> class Table:
> def __init__(self, data):
> self.rows = [
> Row(row) for row in data
> ]
>
> class Document:
> def __init__(self):
> self.tables = [
> Table([
> ["Hello", "Test"],
> ["est", "ing"],
> ["gg", "ff"]
> ]),
> Table([
> ["Foo", "Bar", "Baz"],
> ["ham", "spam", "jam"]
> ])
> ]
>
> document = Document()
>
> # end simulation
>
> wb = xlsxwriter.Workbook("tmp.xlsx")
> sheet = wb.add_worksheet("Compliance")
>
> offset = 0
> for table in document.tables:
> for y, row in enumerate(table.rows):
> for x, cell in enumerate(row.cells):
> sheet.write(y + offset, x, cell.text)
> offset += len(table.rows) + 1 # one empty row between tables
>
> wb.close()
Hi Peter, thank you for your efforts :)
However, what if there are many tables in the word document, it would be tedious to have to code the texts in the tables one by one. Can I instead, call on the word document and let Python do the parsing for tables and its contents?
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