Span columns with docxTemplate python

[jimmeh]

I'm having trouble trying to fill in a table row by row using DocxTemplate. I'm only confused on how the template should look like.

This is my python code:

from docxtpl import Docxtemplate doc = DocxTemplate("Template.docx") context = {} table_info = [{start: "A", end: "C"}, {start: "B", end: "C"}, {start:"F", end:"L"}, {start:"B", end:"R"}] context["table_info"] = table_info doc.render(context) doc.save("Finish.docx")

I want the final result to be in a table like this:

| start | end | | A | C | | B | C | | F | L | | B | R |

Would anyone be willing to show me how I can accomplish this? I saw this example: https://github.com/elapouya/python-docx-...e_tpl.docx but I wasn't able to wrap my head around what I'm trying to do. Thanks in advance!

[heiner55]

I think you want to use python-docx
(not python-docx-template), see here:

https://python-docx.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

There is a sample which create tables.

[heiner55]

#!/usr/bin/python3 from docx import Document from docx.shared import Inches document = Document() records = ( ('A', 'C'), ('B', 'C'), ) table = document.add_table(rows=1, cols=2) hdr_cells = table.rows[0].cells hdr_cells[0].text = 'start' hdr_cells[1].text = 'end' for c0, c1 in records: row_cells = table.add_row().cells row_cells[0].text = c0 row_cells[1].text = c1 document.save('demo.docx')

[jimmeh]

The problem with this is it manually adds its own table into a new docx file. Is there a way to do this except have it insert into a table that already exists in a docx file.

[heiner55]

Ok, then you need python-docx-template.

As I understand python-docx-template,
you have to made first a template yourself
with a table already.
And then you can change or add data to the table with python.