python-docx

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

Fork

This fork differs from the main repository in that it includes:

• Add sdt element
• Image support: Emf, Svg, WMF, raw Jpeg, Webp
• Symbol to utf8 unicode when retrieving text from par or run
• Add basic fldSimple element support
• Option to ignore CRC errors when reading docx

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