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#!/usr/bin/env python

"""

This file makes a .docx (Word 2007) file from scratch, showing off most of the

features of python-docx.

If you need to make documents from scratch, you can 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 - 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

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

# Append two headings and a paragraph

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

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

body.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

points = [ 'COM automation'

, '.net or Java'

, 'Automating OpenOffice or MS Office'

]

for point in points:

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

body.append(paragraph('For those of us who prefer something simpler, I '

'made docx.'))

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

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

# Add some bullets

points = ['Paragraphs', 'Bullets', 'Numbered lists',

'Multiple levels of headings', 'Tables', 'Document Properties']

for point in points:

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

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

# Append a table

tbl_rows = [ ['A1', 'A2', 'A3']

, ['B1', 'B2', 'B3']

, ['C1', 'C2', 'C3']

]

body.append(table(tbl_rows))

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

body.append(paragraph('Thanks to the awesomeness of the lxml module, '

'we can:'))

points = [ 'Search and replace'

, 'Extract plain text of document'

, 'Add and delete items anywhere within the document'

]

for point in points:

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

# Add an image

relationships, picpara = picture(relationships, 'image1.png',

'This is a test description')

body.append(picpara)

# Search and replace

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

if search(body, 'the awesomeness'):

print 'found it!'

else:

print 'nope.'

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

if search(body, '200 lines'):

print 'found it!'

else:

print 'nope.'

print 'Replacing ...',

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

print 'done.'

# Add a pagebreak

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

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

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

# Create our properties, contenttypes, and other support files

title = 'Python docx demo'

subject = 'A practical example of making docx from Python'

creator = 'Mike MacCana'

keywords = ['python', 'Office Open XML', 'Word']

coreprops = coreproperties(title=title, subject=subject, creator=creator,

keywords=keywords)

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')