I am having real trouble with this. Wasted a bunch of hours and just can't get it figured out. I would appreciate any help.
I have installed python-docx on Pycharm. I run the following code:
from docx import Document
from docx.shared import Inches
And i receive the following error message:
ImportError: cannot import name 'Document'
I have seen a number of different explanations ... need to update lxml, need to update PIL need to check source folder ... and I have not been able to make anything work and it is becoming very frustrating.
I am on a MAC OS X 10.10.5
Pretty good chance you have 'docx' installed rather than 'python-docx'. 'docx' was the package name for the legacy version, v0.2 and before. It has a completely different API and doesn't have a Document class. Consequently it gives this exact error. If python-docx just wasn't installed it would be more like no package named docx.
You can confirm this with pip freeze:
$ pip freeze
...
docx=0.2.0
...
python-docx=0.8.6
...
You can only have one installed; they can't co-exist because the root module name is docx in both cases. Which one gets imported as docx depends on installation order and perhaps other factors; short story is you should get rid of the old one.
Depending on what pip freeze shows you, you'll want to uninstall docx and install or reinstall python-docx. Safest would be to uninstall them both and then reinstall python-docx.
$ pip uninstall docx
$ pip uninstall python-docx
$ pip install python-docx