All paragraphs are empty in an opened document in python-docx

Question

I do the following:

from docx import Document
document = Document('text.docx')
document.paragraphs[42].text

And it gives me '' whatever number I enter, and for loop to find and replace a word does not work. But if I save the document with document.save('text2.docx'), the document is not empty.
The document is relatively big and contains many different formatting, images, tables, styles.
My task is to find and replace a word in docx document with some correction of the following word, so I will be glad, if you suggest another tool

your code is correct ..if youre getting " " symbol it means the paragraph your'e accessing is empty — AnkushRasgon, Jul 11 '19 at 07:23
But I get it whatever paragraph I choose, but it is not true, the document is not empty — Alexander Ivanov, Jul 11 '19 at 09:12
I want to know how to read the document. Other documents are read properly — Alexander Ivanov, Jul 11 '19 at 09:35
you can read by using print statement print(document.paragraphs[42].text) — AnkushRasgon, Jul 11 '19 at 11:15

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 31 '22 at 15:49

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I ran into this problem and was able to read the document using docx2txt: https://pypi.org/project/docx2txt/

answered Aug 31 '22 at 15:49

Nick Koprowicz

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All paragraphs are empty in an opened document in python-docx

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