python-docx-ng is a Python library for creating and updating Microsoft Word (.docx) files. It was originally designed and developed by scanny as python-docx. As he is not actively developing his repo and there are soo many useful pull requests, bringing together a more powerful tool. This repo should merge a lot of those things and create a more powerful version, hopefully bearing the original structure of scanny in mind.
A new documentation section will be build up soon based on Markdown in the docs section. Examples can be found here: examples Older information is available in the python-docx Documentation.
pip install python-docx-ng
Hint: The library is called
docxin python scripts, so use imports likeimport docx.
- Extended Properties support python-docx #1206
- Word 16 (Office 2019) Template (54a1269)
- Faster & improved tables (#1)
- SVG support (#4)
- EMF support (85a30f1)
- WMF support (9288ec9)
- Font scaling (#6)
- Outline level (#7) - shows outline in navigation (e.g. Word or PDF application - not affecting the document itself)
- RGB color font highlighting (#14)
- Hyperlink text (#16)
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.docmfile support (#19) - enables marco documents - Form fields & AltChunk support (#20)
- Custom namespaces (#21)
- Comment support (85a30f1)
- Footnote support (85a30f1)
- Shading support (9288ec9)
- Performance improvements
- Paragraph.text ([#3}(toxicphreAK#3)
- Cache for table cells (#8)
- Fixes
- Fix table issue python-docx#1196 - as table columns were not assigned correctly, see python-docx#1193
- Fix table merging recusion python-openxml#1208 - replace recursion with for loop
- add_picture (#10) - fix next_id to support multiple pictures
Heading 1key error due to style capitalization (e.g. in LibreOffice) (#12)- Fix XPath for sectPr in document (#15)
- Reproducible documents (#17) - same binary output with same data
- AttValue too long in etree xml parser (#24)
- Document all functionallities building a new sample document with all (most) features included
- Go through all Issues of python-docx repo
- Open & To Be Implemented:
- media file path issue - python-openxml#1205
- automatically update table of contents - python-openxml#1207
- specify table location (not at end of document) - python-openxml#1204
- read information from activex elements - python-openxml#1197
- begin new list numbering - python-openxml#1194
- Open & To Be Implemented:
- Search on stackoverflow and document solutions
- Go through all Issues of python-docx repo
- Remove code references to original repo of python-docx
- Setup new docs (markdown based)
- Add missing tests