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BlockItemContainer

paper-docx 0.2.0 API reference

Base class for proxy objects that can contain block items.

These containers include _Body, _Cell, header, footer, footnote, endnote, comment, and text box objects. Provides the shared functionality to add a block item like a paragraph or table.

BlockItemContainer(element: BlockItemElement, parent: t.ProvidesStoryPart)

Attributes

paragraphs

attributeparagraphs

A list containing the paragraphs in this container, in document order.

Read-only.

part

attributepartStoryPart

The package part containing this object.

tables

attributetables

A list containing the tables in this container, in document order.

Read-only.

Functions

add_paragraph

funcadd_paragraph(text: str = '', style: str | ParagraphStyle | None = None) -> Paragraph

Return paragraph newly added to the end of the content in this container.

The paragraph has text in a single run if present, and is given paragraph style style.

If style is None, no paragraph style is applied, which has the same effect as applying the 'Normal' style.

paramtextstr
= ''
paramstylestr | ParagraphStyle | None
= None

Returns

docx.text.paragraph.Paragraph

add_table

funcadd_table(rows: int, cols: int, width: Length) -> Table

Return table of width having rows rows and cols columns.

The table is appended appended at the end of the content in this container.

width is evenly distributed between the table columns.

paramrowsint
paramcolsint
paramwidthLength

Returns

docx.table.Table

iter_inner_content

funciter_inner_content() -> Iterator[Paragraph | Table]

Generate each Paragraph or Table in this container in document order.

Returns

typing.Iterator[docx.text.paragraph.Paragraph | docx.table.Table]

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