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#!/usr/bin/env python2.6

'''

This file makes an docx (Office 2007) file from scratch, showing off most of python-docx's features.

If you need to make documents from scratch, use this file as a basis for your work.

Part of Python's docx module - http://github.com/mikemaccana/python-docx

See LICENSE for licensing information.

'''

from docx import *

if __name__ == '__main__':

# Default set of relationshipships - these are the minimum components of a document

relationships = relationshiplist()

# Make a new document tree - this is the main part of a Word document

document = newdocument()

# This xpath location is where most interesting content lives

docbody = document.xpath('/w:document/w:body', namespaces=nsprefixes)[0]

# Append two headings and a paragraph

docbody.append(heading('''Welcome to Python's docx module''',1) )

docbody.append(heading('Make and edit docx in 200 lines of pure Python',2))

docbody.append(paragraph('The module was created when I was looking for a Python support for MS Word .doc files on PyPI and Stackoverflow. Unfortunately, the only solutions I could find used:'))

# Add a numbered list

for point in ['''COM automation''','''.net or Java''','''Automating OpenOffice or MS Office''']:

docbody.append(paragraph(point,style='ListNumber'))

docbody.append(paragraph('''For those of us who prefer something simpler, I made docx.'''))

docbody.append(heading('Making documents',2))

docbody.append(paragraph('''The docx module has the following features:'''))

# Add some bullets

for point in ['Paragraphs','Bullets','Numbered lists','Multiple levels of headings','Tables','Document Properties']:

docbody.append(paragraph(point,style='ListBullet'))

docbody.append(paragraph('Tables are just lists of lists, like this:'))

# Append a table

docbody.append(table([['A1','A2','A3'],['B1','B2','B3'],['C1','C2','C3']]))

docbody.append(heading('Editing documents',2))

docbody.append(paragraph('Thanks to the awesomeness of the lxml module, we can:'))

for point in ['Search and replace','Extract plain text of document','Add and delete items anywhere within the document']:

docbody.append(paragraph(point,style='ListBullet'))

# Add an image

relationships,picpara = picture(relationships,'image1.png','This is a test description')

docbody.append(picpara)

# Search and replace

print 'Searching for something in a paragraph ...',

if search(docbody, 'the awesomeness'): print 'found it!'

else: print 'nope.'

print 'Searching for something in a heading ...',

if search(docbody, '200 lines'): print 'found it!'

else: print 'nope.'

print 'Replacing ...',

docbody = replace(docbody,'the awesomeness','the goshdarned awesomeness')

print 'done.'

# Add a pagebreak

docbody.append(pagebreak(type='page', orient='portrait'))

docbody.append(heading('Ideas? Questions? Want to contribute?',2))

docbody.append(paragraph('''Email <python.docx@librelist.com>'''))

# Create our properties, contenttypes, and other support files

coreprops = coreproperties(title='Python docx demo',subject='A practical example of making docx from Python',creator='Mike MacCana',keywords=['python','Office Open XML','Word'])

appprops = appproperties()

contenttypes = contenttypes()

websettings = websettings()

wordrelationships = wordrelationships(relationships)

# Save our document

savedocx(document,coreprops,appprops,contenttypes,websettings,wordrelationships,'Welcome to the Python docx module.docx')