How to get all the text in a nested table using python?

Question

I have to extract all the text in a nested table (tables inside table inside table) from a word document. I'm unable to do it using the python-docx, maybe my lack of knowledge.

Please suggest some code examples.

Answer 1

You will want some sort of recursion. The basic idea is:

def iter_paragraphs_of_tables(tables):
    for table in tables:
        for row in table.rows:
            for cell in row.cells:
                yield from cell.paragraphs
                yield from iter_paragraphs_of_tables(cell.tables)

for paragraph in iter_paragraphs_of_tables(document.tables):
    print(paragraph.text)

This is Python3, if you're on Python2 you'll need to expand the yield from statements into, for example:

yield from cell.paragraphs
# --- becomes ---
for paragraph in cell.paragraphs:
    yield paragraph