Indentation seems pretty straightforward, and terminal prints back the proper indentation, but the same indentation is not reflected in my saved Word docx.
Am I doing something wrong here?
from docx import Document
from docx.shared import Inches
worddoc = Document()
paragraph = worddoc.add_paragraph('Left Indent Test')
paragraph.left_indent = Inches(.25)
print(paragraph.left_indent.inches)
worddoc.save('left_indent.docx')
This turns out to be a documentation error.
If you use the new API it works:
paragraph.paragraph_format.left_indent = Inches(0.25)
The left_indent property was moved to the paragraph_format "sub-object" a couple releases back as the ParagraphFormat class is used by both the Paragraph and ParagraphStyle objects.
If you'll file a bug report in the python-docx issue tracker on GitHub we'll get the documentation updated next time we're in there.