docx to list in python

Question

I am trying to read a docx file and to add the text to a list. Now I need the list to contain lines from the docx file.

example:

docx file:

"Hello, my name is blabla,
I am 30 years old.
I have two kids."

result:

['Hello, my name is blabla', 'I am 30 years old', 'I have two kids']

I cant get it to work.

Using the docx2txt module from here: github link

There is only one command of process and it returns all the text from docx file.

Also I would like it to keep the special characters like ":\-\.\,"

Dinesh Pundkar · Accepted Answer · 2016-09-27 06:36:21Z

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docx2txt module reads docx file and converts it in text format.

You need to split above output using splitlines() and store it in list.

Code (Comments inline) :

import docx2txt

text = docx2txt.process("a.docx")

#Prints output after converting
print ("After converting text is ",text)

content = []
for line in text.splitlines():
  #This will ignore empty/blank lines. 
  if line != '':
    #Append to list
    content.append(line)

print (content)

Output:

C:\Users\dinesh_pundkar\Desktop>python c.py
After converting text is
 Hello, my name is blabla.

I am 30 years old.

I have two kids.

 List is  ['Hello, my name is blabla.', 'I am 30 years old. ', 'I have two kids.']

C:\Users\dinesh_pundkar\Desktop>

answered Sep 27, 2016 at 6:36

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5 Comments

Kiper Over a year ago

Wow, i spent so much time trying to figure it out. didnt know there is splitlines() command.. Thanks alot!

Dinesh Pundkar Over a year ago

@Kiper - Thanks to you also since due to this question I came to know know about docx2txt module.

Kiper Over a year ago

Im trying to parse pdfs now, after recieving the text of pdf i am using same method of splitline(). for some reason i get whitespace in the end of each line. what would be the best way to get rid of it? my list looks like that ['word1 ', 'word2 ','word3 '] instead of [word1,word2,word3]

Dinesh Pundkar Over a year ago

Use line=line.strip() to get rid of white space

Kiper Over a year ago

I swear i tried it. but it worked only after you said it. Thanks again.

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