So, I've created a document with python-docx, and everything works as I'd expected, but the 'Authors' are shows as 'Cisco Employee'.
I've tried Googling 'python-docx change author', and other variations, but I can't find anything.
Does an option exist to change the authors name, or is that not possible currently?
Hmm, good to know. That's a bit of a bug. I'll get that fixed up :)
In the meantime, you can create a template of your own and customize it to your needs.
Make sure you study this page in the documentation: http://python-docx.readthedocs.org/en/latest/user/documents.html
Basically what you do is:
document = Document()
document.save('my-new-template.docx')
Then change 'my-new-template.docx' directly, using Word, to have the settings you want, and change your code to start like this:
document = Document('my-new-template.docx')
...
The changes you made to my-new-template will be reflected in all documents created that way.
Longer term, perhaps soon, there will be a Document.core_props property that will provide access to a CoreProperties object. That object will allow you to set the author and other fields to whatever you want.
UPDATE
I added core properties support to python-docx, here's how you would use it:
document = Document()
core_properties = document.core_properties
core_properties.author = 'Foo B. Baz'
document.save('new-filename.docx')
Details about the available properties are in the documentation here: http://python-docx.readthedocs.org/en/latest/api/document.html#coreproperties-objects