Read word tables
Thomas Guettler
guettli at thomas-guettler.de
Tue Dec 21 08:49:48 EST 2004
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/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/192914
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