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]

Re: Read word tables

Am Tue, 21 Dec 2004 11:24:35 +0000 schrieb Rameshwari:
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>
> 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?[/color]

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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[Andrew Henshaw]

Re: Read word tables

Rameshwari wrote:
[color=blue]
>
> 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[/color]

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(ro w)
tables.append(t able)
return tables



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Georgia Tech Research Institute