Extracting tables from a DOCX Word document in python

Question

I\'m trying to extract a content of tables in DOCX Word document, and boy I\'m new to xml/xpath.

from docx import *
document = opendocx(\'someFile.docx\')
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Answer 1

You can extract the table from docx using python-docx. Check the following code:

from docx import Document()
document = Document(file_path)

tables = document.tables