Inserting the degree symbol into the word document using python

Question

I am using the python https://github.com/mikemaccana/python-docx module and I am trying to just simply add the degree symbol to my word document and can not see how to do it.

Just have a string something like this:

Degree = "some_numberº"

and then I want to insert that string in my document.

No, to be honest I am not sure what you mean by zip archive, opened the word/document.xml file and I could not do it. — peztherez, Aug 06 '13 at 16:10

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited Jun 20 '20 at 09:12

I have created an empty document with the following text inside it:

EmptyDocx12Degrees

saved it as document.docx
renamed document.docx to document.zip
opened the zip and extracted it
opened the file in folder word named document.xml file

This is a link documenting the structure of a word document 'of information purposes) : https://stackoverflow.com/tags/docx/info

Here's the content of the document.xml for the specific file with degrees inside:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<w:document mc:Ignorable="w14 wp14" xmlns:m="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/officeDocument/2006/math" xmlns:mc="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/markup-compatibility/2006" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:r="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/officeDocument/2006/relationships" xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:w="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/wordprocessingml/2006/main" xmlns:w10="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns:w14="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordml" xmlns:wne="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2006/wordml" xmlns:wp="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/drawingml/2006/wordprocessingDrawing" xmlns:wp14="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordprocessingDrawing" xmlns:wpc="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordprocessingCanvas" xmlns:wpg="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordprocessingGroup" xmlns:wpi="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordprocessingInk" xmlns:wps="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordprocessingShape">
    <w:body>
        <w:p w:rsidR="009565D8" w:rsidRDefault="00986522">
            <w:r>
                <w:rPr>
                    <w:rFonts w:ascii="Arial" w:cs="Arial" w:hAnsi="Arial"/>
                    <w:color w:val="000000"/>
                    <w:sz w:val="21"/>
                    <w:szCs w:val="21"/>
                    <w:shd w:color="auto" w:fill="FFFFFF" w:val="clear"/>
                </w:rPr>
                <w:t>12</w:t>
            </w:r>
            <w:r>
                <w:rPr>
                    <w:rFonts w:ascii="Arial" w:cs="Arial" w:hAnsi="Arial"/>
                    <w:color w:val="000000"/>
                    <w:sz w:val="21"/>
                    <w:szCs w:val="21"/>
                    <w:shd w:color="auto" w:fill="FFFFFF" w:val="clear"/>
                </w:rPr>
                <w:t>º</w:t>
            </w:r>
            <w:bookmarkStart w:id="0" w:name="_GoBack"/>
            <w:bookmarkEnd w:id="0"/>
        </w:p>
        <w:sectPr w:rsidR="009565D8">
            <w:pgSz w:h="16838" w:w="11906"/>
            <w:pgMar w:bottom="1417" w:footer="708" w:gutter="0" w:header="708" w:left="1417" w:right="1417" w:top="1417"/>
            <w:cols w:space="708"/>
            <w:docGrid w:linePitch="360"/>
        </w:sectPr>
    </w:body>
</w:document>

As you can see, they are tags: <w:t></w:t> . These tags contain the text of your document. One of them contains 12, and the other contains the degree symbol.

So it is just stored as º, or charCode 186. To include your string, replace the charactercode of the degree in the string by the characterCode 186, it should work (with a regex for example)

Inserting the degree symbol into the word document using python

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