iterate over tables in a word document using python docx

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I have been trying to figure out how to add cell 0 from all tables in a word document to my_list , I managed to add from a specific table placement number (96) but can't seem to pull all tables data, I used this for table array number 96 and it worked

`tables = list(d.tables)
tbl = d.tables[96]
my_list = []
for rw in tbl.rows:
    my_list.append(rw.cells[0].text)

print(my_list)

tried a lot of different options to iterate all tables and add to my_list, one being below but it gives the error 'Table' object has no attribute 'cells'

my_list = []

tbl = list(d.tables)
for val in tbl:
    for rw in tbl:
        my_list.append(rw.cells[0].text)


print(my_list)

any help is greatly appriciated

Jongware · Accepted Answer · 2020-01-20 22:23:53Z

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This is not a complete runnable example so I cannot verify it, but:

This part is Bad Python:

for val in tbl:
    for rw in tbl:

You are iterating over tbl twice, and all the outer loop is doing is running the inner loop len(tbl) times. The second line might be

for rw in val:

but I am not 100% on that due to Not Enough Information.

(Also, consider renaming both tbl and val to something resembling what they contain: list_of_tables and a_table would be far better. Also, use row instead of rw, as Python does not have some unreasonable variable name length width.)

answered Jan 20, 2020 at 22:23

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elfranco91 Over a year ago

Thanks a lot for your recommendation, it led me down the right path, i just added .rows and it worked. for table in tables: for row in table.rows:

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