I need this code to be able to work with existing documents I have, but it is only finding one footer in each document. I need it to find all 3 (first page, even, and odd). Here is the link to my test document: http://www.filedropper.com/testdoc_1
from docx import Document
document = Document('C:/Users/username/Desktop/SPECS/TEST DOC.docx')
print(len(document.sections))
for section in document.sections:
footer = section.footer
footer.paragraphs[0].text = footer.paragraphs[0].text.replace("ISSUED FOR CONSTRUCTION", "DESIGN DEVELOPMENT")
document.save('C:/Users/username/Desktop/SPECS/TEST DOC.docx')
So I answered my question by reading this documentation: https://python-docx.readthedocs.io/en/latest/api/section.html
The default is the odd page footer. To access the other footers (if you enabled different first page and even footers) you have to use the below code:
first_page_footer = section.first_page_footer
even_page_footer = section.even_page_footer
odd_page_footer = section.footer