Working with tables in python-docx

Question

I have a small question about working with opened docx-file. This is part of my code:

doc = Document(self.fileName[0])

for paragraph in doc.paragraphs:
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Answer 1

Thanks for the reference to https://github.com/python-openxml/python-docx/issues/40, though had to do some updates to the code found, maybe due to changes over ~5 years, and ended up using:

from docx.document import Document
from docx.oxml.table import CT_Tbl
from docx.oxml.text.paragraph import CT_P
from docx.table import _Cell, Table
from docx.text.paragraph import Paragraph

def iter_block_items(parent):
    """
    Yield each paragraph and table child within *parent*, in document order.
    Each returned value is an instance of either Table or Paragraph. *parent*
    would most commonly be a reference to a main Document object, but
    also works for a _Cell object, which itself can contain paragraphs and tables.
    """
def iter_block_items(parent):
    # Get parrent element
    if isinstance(parent, Document):
        parent_elm = parent.element.body
    elif isinstance(parent, _Cell):
        parent_elm = parent._tc
    else:
        raise ValueError("something's not right")
    # Get children in parent element
    for child in parent_elm.iterchildren():
        if isinstance(child, CT_P):
            yield Paragraph(child, parent)
        elif isinstance(child, CT_Tbl):
            yield Table(child, parent)