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Creating Word Documents with python-docx

Basics

docx_create.py

from docx import Document
 
 
doc = Document()
doc.add_heading("Weekly Report", level=1)
doc.add_paragraph("This report was generated automatically.")
 
table = doc.add_table(rows=1, cols=2)
hdr = table.rows[0].cells
hdr[0].text = "Item"
hdr[1].text = "Value"
 
for item, value in [("Users", "120"), ("Errors", "3")]:
    row_cells = table.add_row().cells
    row_cells[0].text = item
    row_cells[1].text = value
 
doc.save("report.docx")

docx_create.py

from docx import Document
 
 
doc = Document()
doc.add_heading("Weekly Report", level=1)
doc.add_paragraph("This report was generated automatically.")
 
table = doc.add_table(rows=1, cols=2)
hdr = table.rows[0].cells
hdr[0].text = "Item"
hdr[1].text = "Value"
 
for item, value in [("Users", "120"), ("Errors", "3")]:
    row_cells = table.add_row().cells
    row_cells[0].text = item
    row_cells[1].text = value
 
doc.save("report.docx")

Tips

start from a template .docx for complex formatting
docx is not the same as PDF (convert separately if needed)

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