Write tables from Word (.docx) to Excel (.xlsx) using xlsxwriter
Peter Otten
__peter__ at web.de
Wed May 27 14:40:25 EDT 2020
BBT wrote:
> 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?
I don't understand. You have docx.api available, so you can replace
the "simulation" part of my example with just these two lines:
from docx.api import Document
document = Document('/Users/xxx/Documents/xxx/Clauses Sample - Copy v1 - for merge.docx')
I should work -- it's just that I cannot be sure it will work because I could
not test it.
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