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Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Reading Individual Paragraphs
Introduction
To read a word document we take help of the module named docx. We first install docx as shown below. Then write a program to use the different functions in docx module
to read the entire file by paragraphs.
We use the below command to get the docx module into our environment.
pip install docx
In the below example we read the content of a word document by appending each of the lines to a paragraph and finally printing out all the paragraph text.
import docx
def readtxt(filename):
doc = docx.Document(filename)
fullText = []
for para in doc.paragraphs:
fullText.append(para.text)
return '\n'.join(fullText)
print (readtxt('path\Tutorialspoint.docx'))
When we run the above program, we get the following output −
Tutorials Point originated from the idea that there exists a class of readers who respond
better to online content and prefer to learn new skills at their own pace from the comforts
of their drawing rooms.
The journey commenced with a single tutorial on HTML in 2006 and elated by the response it generated,
we worked our way to adding fresh tutorials to our repository which now proudly flaunts
a wealth of tutorials and allied articles on topics ranging from programming languages
to web designing to academics and much more.
Reading Individual Paragraphs
We can read a specific paragraph from the word document using the paragraphs attribute. In the below example we read only the second paragraph from the word document.
import docx
doc = docx.Document('path\Tutorialspoint.docx')
print len(doc.paragraphs)
print doc.paragraphs[2].text
When we run the above program, we get the following output −
The journey commenced with a single tutorial on HTML in 2006 and elated by the response
it generated, we worked our way to adding fresh tutorials to our repository
which now proudly flaunts a wealth of tutorials and allied articles on topics
ranging from programming languages to web designing to academics and much more.
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