Checking for particular style using python-docx

python-docx
Vijayaraghavan Ravi picture Vijayaraghavan Ravi · Jan 12, 2015 · Viewed 9k times · Source 
from docx import *
document = Document('ABC.docx')

for paragraph in document.paragraphs:
 for run in paragraph.runs:
  if run.style == 'Strong':
   print run.text

This is the code I am using to open a docx file and to check if there is Bold text but I am not getting any result. If I remove the if statement , the entire file is printed without any formatting / styles. Can you please let me know how to identify text in particular style like Bold or Italics using python-docx ? Thank you

Answer

scanny picture scanny · Jan 12, 2015

Although bold and the style Strong appear the same when rendered, they use two different mechanisms. The first applies bold directly and the second applies a character style that can include any other number of font characteristics.

To identify all occurrences of text that appears bold, you may need to do both.

But to just find the text having bold applied you would do something like this:

for paragraph in document.paragraphs:
    for run in paragraph.runs:
        if run.bold:
            print run.text

Note there are ways this can miss text that appears bold, like text that appears in a paragraph whose font formatting is bold for the entire paragraph (Heading1 for example). But I think this is the property you were looking for.

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