read text from left most cell only

Question

I have a lot of tables in a docx file and I'm trying to get text from cells from first columns.

I have this code for searching in full rows

for table in doc.tables:
    for row in table.rows:
        for cell in row.cells:
            for paragraph in cell.paragraphs:
                result = ReqRegex.search(paragraph.text)
                if result:
                    file.write(result.group()+"\n")

but I'm trying to change it to check only first columns

for table in doc.tables:
    for column in table.columns:
        for cell in table.column_cells(0):
            for paragraph in cell.paragraphs:
                result = ReqRegex.search(paragraph.text)
                if result:
                    file.write(result.group()+"\n")

Can you tell me what can I change to make this code work?

Answer 1

Finally I have solved my problem. Maybe it will be useful for someone

for table in doc.tables:
    rowNo = 0
    for row in table.rows:
        columnNo = 0
        for cell in row.cells:
            columnNo += 1
            for paragraph in cell.paragraphs:
                result = ReqRegex.search(paragraph.text)
                if columnNo == 1:
                    print(cell.text)
                    if result:
                        file.write(result.group()+"\n")
        rowNo += 1