ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'exceptions'

Question

I need to transform 140 .docx files into txt. I am using the following Python code that I found here in StackOverflow.

I tried this:

import os
from docx import Document

# Path to the folder containing .docx files
input_folder = "C:/Users/XXXXX/Desktop/word"

# Path to the folder where .txt files will be saved
output_folder = "C:/Users/XXXXX/Desktop/Txt"

# Get a list of all .docx files in the input folder
files = [f for f in os.listdir(input_folder) if f.endswith(".docx")]

# Loop through each .docx file and convert it to .txt
for file in files:
    docx_path = os.path.join(input_folder, file)
    txt_path = os.path.join(output_folder, os.path.splitext(file)[0] + ".txt")

    doc = Document(docx_path)
    content = [p.text for p in doc.paragraphs]

    with open(txt_path, "w", encoding="utf-8") as txt_file:
        txt_file.write("\n".join(content))

print("Conversion complete!")

But whenever I run the code, I get this error:

---------------------------------------------------------------------------
ModuleNotFoundError                       Traceback (most recent call last)
Cell In[1], line 2
      1 import os
----> 2 from docx import Document
      4 # Path to the folder containing .docx files
      5 input_folder = "C:/Users/XXXXX/Desktop/word"

File ~\anaconda3\Lib\site-packages\docx.py:30
     27 except ImportError:
     28     TAGS = {}
---> 30 from exceptions import PendingDeprecationWarning
     31 from warnings import warn
     33 import logging

ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'exceptions'

Do you know why am I getting this error and how could I solve this? Thank you!

There is a need for a specific module here. Check the list of the installed modules by running `pip list` or `pip3 list` (depending on what you are using) in the command line to see if `exceptions` appears. — Barbara Gendron, Jul 25 '23 at 07:36
Thanks both! It was that problem. I forgot to pip install python-docx. Now it's all good. — Ignacio Godoy-Descazeaux, Jul 25 '23 at 08:04

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 25 '23 at 07:44

The error can occur for multiple reasons:

Not having the python-docx package installed by running pip install python-docx.

Installing the package in a different Python version than the one you're using.

Installing the package globally and not in your virtual environment.

Your IDE running an incorrect version of Python.

Naming your module exception.py which would shadow the official module.

Declaring a variable named exceptions which would shadow the imported variable.

See this answer: https://bobbyhadz.com/blog/python-no-module-named-exceptions#:~:text=The%20Python%20%22ModuleNotFoundError%3A%20No%20module,pip%20install%20python%2Ddocx%20command.

Thanks! Now it works. forgot to pip install python-docx. – Ignacio Godoy-Descazeaux Jul 25 '23 at 08:04 — Ignacio Godoy-Descazeaux, Jul 25 '23 at 08:04

ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'exceptions'

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