Python copy and pasting tables [closed]

I'm currently working on a program to be able to copy the contents from a word doc and create a new document with the contents, but I want to be able select which parts of the doc to copy. There are headings throughout and those are what I've been using as a focal point because they have a unique style tag (Heading2) so the code goes through and if you say copy section 3 it will go until it finds 'section 3' with that style and pastes it into the new doc. My issue is the tables, i have a function to copy the contents and that works perfectly but when i try to associate it to certain sections it gets a bit wonky. It works up until about half way through where one of the sections has 2 tables in it versus the previous ones which only have 1 table per section. This causes problems because my current code just associates 1-to-1 so table 1 goes in section 1, table 2 in section 2 and so on, but when theres 2 tables a section the first one goes in the right section but the second table goes in the next section making everything out of sync so I want to make it so copies based off of the style tag, that way i could have as many tables as i want in a section and they'd all be copied into the correct section. Everything I've tried so far doesnt work so I'm hoping someone might be able to help me alter it. def associate_tables_with_sections(doc): # Written up sections = [] current_section = None table_index = 0 # Loop through the paragraphs to extract content for sections for para in doc.paragraphs: if para.style.name == 'Heading 2' and para.text.strip(): # Starting a new section based on Heading 2 if current_section: sections.append(current_section) # Save the previous section current_section = {'heading': para.text.strip(), 'content': [], 'tables': []} elif current_section: # Add content paragraphs to the current section current_section['content'].append(para) # After loop ends, append the last section if current_section: sections.append(current_section) # Now associate tables with the appropriate section (by proximity) for table in doc.tables: if sections: sections[table_index % len(sections)]['tables'].append(table) table_index += 1 return sections This is the code that currently works, but doesnt copy more than 1 table per section. Any help would be much appreciated.

Jan 23, 2025 - 12:54

I'm currently working on a program to be able to copy the contents from a word doc and create a new document with the contents, but I want to be able select which parts of the doc to copy. There are headings throughout and those are what I've been using as a focal point because they have a unique style tag (Heading2) so the code goes through and if you say copy section 3 it will go until it finds 'section 3' with that style and pastes it into the new doc.

My issue is the tables, i have a function to copy the contents and that works perfectly but when i try to associate it to certain sections it gets a bit wonky. It works up until about half way through where one of the sections has 2 tables in it versus the previous ones which only have 1 table per section. This causes problems because my current code just associates 1-to-1 so table 1 goes in section 1, table 2 in section 2 and so on, but when theres 2 tables a section the first one goes in the right section but the second table goes in the next section making everything out of sync so I want to make it so copies based off of the style tag, that way i could have as many tables as i want in a section and they'd all be copied into the correct section. Everything I've tried so far doesnt work so I'm hoping someone might be able to help me alter it.

def associate_tables_with_sections(doc): # Written up
    sections = []
    current_section = None
    table_index = 0
    
    # Loop through the paragraphs to extract content for sections
    for para in doc.paragraphs:
        if para.style.name == 'Heading 2' and para.text.strip():
            # Starting a new section based on Heading 2
            if current_section:
                sections.append(current_section)  # Save the previous section
            current_section = {'heading': para.text.strip(), 'content': [], 'tables': []}
        elif current_section:
            # Add content paragraphs to the current section
            current_section['content'].append(para)
    
    # After loop ends, append the last section
    if current_section:
        sections.append(current_section)

    # Now associate tables with the appropriate section (by proximity)
    for table in doc.tables:
        if sections:
            sections[table_index % len(sections)]['tables'].append(table)
            table_index += 1

    return sections

This is the code that currently works, but doesnt copy more than 1 table per section. Any help would be much appreciated.