I read this documentation on python-docx-template
but I’m pretty confused on the table section. Let’s say I have a docx template called Template.docx
. Inside the docx file i have a table that only has headers for it’s title.
How can I use python-docx-template
to dynamically populate the table (add rows and values)?
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Answer
In general, you unlease the power of jinja2
with python-docx-template
.
Filling individual variables
Imagine you make a template.docx
file with a table:
**table 1** **table 2** {{some_content1}} {{some_content2}}
Then you can fill it using
from docxtpl import DocxTemplate import jinja2 doc = DocxTemplate("template.docx") context = { 'some_content1' : "test", "some_content_2": "other"} # Where the magic happens doc.render(context) doc.save("generated_doc.docx")
If you have the data available as a pd.DataFrame
then you can also generate the context
dictionary. For example:
import itertools context = {} for row, col in itertools.product(df.index, df.columns): context[f'{row}_{col}'] = df.loc[row, col]
Dynamic table
You can also generate tables dynamically, which I guess you maybe don’t want to do (if you are talking about specifying “table headers” in the docx). It’s worth looking into though. Use this template with this example from the git tests:
from docxtpl import DocxTemplate tpl = DocxTemplate('templates/dynamic_table_tpl.docx') context = { 'col_labels' : ['fruit', 'vegetable', 'stone', 'thing'], 'tbl_contents': [ {'label': 'yellow', 'cols': ['banana', 'capsicum', 'pyrite', 'taxi']}, {'label': 'red', 'cols': ['apple', 'tomato', 'cinnabar', 'doubledecker']}, {'label': 'green', 'cols': ['guava', 'cucumber', 'aventurine', 'card']}, ] } tpl.render(context) tpl.save('output/dynamic_table.docx')