---
id: python-docx
version: "1.2.0"
license: MIT
license_treatment: permissive
maintenance: active
---

# python-docx — Create, read, and update Microsoft Word .docx files.

License: permissive · Maintenance: active · Popularity: top 1,000 on PyPI

## Install

pip install python-docx
uv add python-docx
poetry add python-docx

## Description

# python-docx

*python-docx* is a Python library for reading, creating, and updating Microsoft Word 2007+ (.docx) files.

## Installation

```
pip install python-docx
```

## Example

```python
>>> from docx import Document

>>> document = Document()
>>> document.add_paragraph("It was a dark and stormy night.")
<docx.text.paragraph.Paragraph object at 0x10f19e760>
>>> document.save("dark-and-stormy.docx")

>>> document = Document("dark-and-stormy.docx")
>>> document.paragraphs[0].text
'It was a dark and stormy night.'
```

More information is available in the [python-docx documentation](https://python-docx.readthedocs.org/en/latest/)

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