I have a table that I would like to populate with numbers 1 through max, where max can be any number greater than 1 but up to the total number of cells in the table. I am running into to problems that are probably really easy, but I am not just getting: Stop adding numbers to the table once the max value is reached Be able to start at a different location (like, the third column in on the first row)
I can get the numbers to populate, but not stop at the max number. I have tried putting the iterator at all levels of the for loop, but I can't achieve my results.
Here is my code so far:
from docx import Document
document_name = 'table_loop_test.docx'
document = Document('template.docx')
table = document.add_table(cols=7, rows=5)
iterator = 1
max = 30
while iterator <= max:
for row in table.rows:
for cell in row.cells:
cell.text = f'{iterator}'
iterator += 1
document.save(document_name)
try:
subprocess.check_output('open ' + document_name, shell=True)
except subprocess.CalledProcessError as exc:
print(exc.output).decode('utf-8')
I would think it would stop at 30, but it just keeps on going! Thanks so much for your help!
One iteration of your while loop will go through the entire nested for loop you created. Instead of using the while loop, you can add a condition to break the both for loops.
for row in table.rows:
for cell in row.cells:
cell.text = f'{iterator}'
iterator += 1
if iterator > max_cell:
break
else:
continue
break
I always feel funny aobut using for-else loops since I can't remember when else is excecuted, so an alternative is to use return in a function:
def make_table(max_cell):
for row in table.rows:
for cell in row.cells:
cell.text = f'{iterator}'
iterator += 1
if iterator > max:
return