Read word tables

[Rameshwari]

Hi,

I would like to read a ms-word document using python.

Basically the word document contains number of tables and the rows
in each table do not have same number of columns.

Does anyone have a sample code to read a table?

Thank you
Best Regards,
Rameshwari

[Thomas Guettler]

Am Tue, 21 Dec 2004 11:24:35 +0000 schrieb Rameshwari:

Hi,

I would like to read a ms-word document using python.

Basically the word document contains number of tables and the rows
in each table do not have same number of columns.

Does anyone have a sample code to read a table?

Hi,

There is a small script[1] which parses the XML produced
by Excel. Something like this should be possible for msword, too.

Other way: You can export to the openoffice format and unzip it.
The read these xml files.

HTH,
Thomas

[1]:http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Coo.../Recipe/192914

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Thomas Güttler, http://www.thomas-guettler.de/

[Andrew Henshaw]

Rameshwari wrote:

Hi,

I would like to read a ms-word document using python.

Basically the word document contains number of tables and the rows
in each table do not have same number of columns.

Does anyone have a sample code to read a table?

Thank you
Best Regards,
Rameshwari

The following code should return a list of list of lists
(tables->table->rows->cells) for the active document in
Microsoft Word.

Warning! Untested code

########################
import win32com.client

def GetTables():
app = win32com.client.Dispatch('Word.Application')
doc = app.Documents[0]
tables = []
for word_table in doc.Tables:
table = []
for word_row in word_table.Rows:
row = [cell.Range.Text for cell in word_row.Cells]
table.append(row)
tables.append(table)
return tables

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Andrew Henshaw
Georgia Tech Research Institute