Printing Nested Tables

HI there, I would like to check if it is possible to print nested tables out using this library? I tried to work on it but however, it just prints the nested table as empty.

from docx import Document

f = open('a.docx', 'rb')
doc = Document(f)

table = doc.tables[0]
data = []

keys = None
for i, row in enumerate(table.columns):
    text = (cell.text for cell in row.cells)

    if i == 0:
        keys = tuple(text)
        continue
    row_data = dict(zip(keys, text))
    data.append(row_data)
print (data)

x = 0
for i in doc.paragraphs:
    if x < 20:
        print (i.text)
    else:
        break
    x = x + 1

f.close()

[scanny]

I think I would extract the bit about navigating a single table for its paragraphs and make that recursive:

def iter_table_paragraphs(table):
    for row in table.rows:
        for cell in row.cells:
            yield from cell.paragraphs
            for table in cell.tables:
                yield from iter_table_paragraphs(table)       

def print_tables(document):
    for paragraph in iter_table_paragraphs(document):
        print(paragraph.text)

That way your specific use for those paragraphs (printing in this case) is up to the caller and the iter_table_paragraphs() function is more general purpose. You could use it to inspect each paragraph for example, or maybe inspect each paragraph style or search for a word.

[scanny]

@richylyq python-docx supports nested tables just fine, you just need to look for them as tables. They are not part of the text of a cell. Something like:

for cell in cells:
    for table in cell.tables:
        # do something with the nested table.