[FIXED] Python: Import text from HTML or text document into Word

Issue

I've been looking at some of the documentation, but all of the work I've seen around docx is primarily directed towards working with text already in a word document. What I'd like to know, is is there a simple way to take text either from HTML or a Text document, and import that into a word document, and to do that wholesale? with all of the text in the HTML/Text document? It doesn't seem to like the string, it's too long.

My understanding of the documentation, is that you have to work with text on a paragraph by paragraph basis. The task that I'd like to do is relatively simple - however it's beyond my python skills. I'd like to set up the margins on the word document, and then import the text into the word document so that it adheres to the margins that I previously specified.

Does anyone have any-thoughts? None of the previous posts have been very helpful that I have found.

import textwrap
import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
from docx import Document
from docx.shared import Inches


class DocumentWrapper(textwrap.TextWrapper):

    def wrap(self, text):
        split_text = text.split('\n\n')
        lines = [line for para in split_text for line in textwrap.TextWrapper.wrap(self, para)]
        return lines

page = requests.get("http://classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/prior.mb.txt")
soup = BeautifulSoup(page.text,"html.parser")

#we are going to pull in the text wrap extension that we have added.
#The typical width that we want tow
text_wrap_extension = DocumentWrapper(width=82,initial_indent="",fix_sentence_endings=True)
new_string = text_wrap_extension.fill(page.text)

final_document = "Prior_Analytics.txt"

with open(final_document, "w") as f:
    f.writelines(new_string)

document = Document(final_document)


### Specified margin specifications
sections = document.sections
for section in sections:
    section.top_margin = (Inches(1.00))
    section.bottom_margin = (Inches(1.00))
    section.right_margin = (Inches(1.00))
    section.left_margin = (Inches(1.00))

document.save(final_document)

The error that I get thrown is below:

docx.opc.exceptions.PackageNotFoundError: Package not found at 'Prior_Analytics.txt'

Solution

I got it.

document = Document()
sections = document.sections
for section in sections:
    section.top_margin = Inches(2)
    section.bottom_margin = Inches(2)
    section.left_margin = Inches(2)
    section.right_margin = Inches(2)
document.add_paragraph(###Add your text here. Add Paragraph Accepts text of whatever size.###)
document.save()#name of document goes here, as a string.

Answered By - Steve