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giuliohome opened this issue May 9, 2020 · 3 comments
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[question] Can't find page breaks in an existing document #823

giuliohome opened this issue May 9, 2020 · 3 comments

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giuliohome commented May 9, 2020 •
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I've tried to open an existing docx with the following code:

from docx import Document
document = Document('Testme.docx')
sections = document.sections
for section in sections:
    print(section.start_type)
paragraphs = document.paragraphs
for paragraph in paragraphs:
    for run in paragraph.runs:
        print(run.text)
        if hasattr(run, 'breaks'):
            for br in run.breaks:
                print(br.type.__name__)

The document has 3 pages (and here I mean 2 manual page breaks) but I can only see the initial NEW_PAGE (2) from the output.
Which is the correct show to find the page breaks?
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I've found this answer.
It does the trick. Is it the correct way?

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giuliohome commented May 10, 2020 •
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Notice that under the Breaks documentation in readthedoc, under Candidate protocol – run.add_break()
it loooks like one could do

>>> run.breaks
[<docx.text.Break object at 0x10a7c4f50>]

while instead it is not an attribute, see the real effect:

>>> run.breaks
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
AttributeError: 'Run' object has no attribute 'breaks'

Anyway, I confirm that the solution for me has been the stackoverflow answer linked above, inspecting the .r.xml of each run.

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@scanny scanny closed this as completed Dec 27, 2020
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scanny commented Dec 29, 2020

@giuliohome didn't mean to be abrupt, just clearing out resolved issues and this one hasn't had any action for several months. Your solution looks fine and looks like it works for you. The document you refer to is a design document and may contain ideas for features that have not yet been added.

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