How to extract text from an existing docx file using python-docx

Question

I\'m trying to use python-docx module (pip install python-docx) but it seems to be very confusing as in github repo test sample they are using

Answer 1

Using python-docx, as @Chinmoy Panda 's answer shows:

for para in doc.paragraphs:
    fullText.append(para.text)

However, para.text will lost the text in w:smarttag (Corresponding github issue is here: https://github.com/python-openxml/python-docx/issues/328), you should use the following function instead:

def para2text(p):
    rs = p._element.xpath('.//w:t')
    return u" ".join([r.text for r in rs])