Copying a portion of .docx file (keep formatting and images)

Question

Good day SO,

I am trying to copy a part of a .docx file into another .docx file, while keeping the formatting of the copied part, as well as any images, using python.

I have tried python-docx but i am unable to find anything regarding images. Link to my previous qn here: Extracting .docx data, images and structure

Is there a way for me to copy a part of a document, lets say DocA, and insert it into the ending of DocB (Including images and formatting, basically a clean copy and paste situation)?

Thanks alot!

EDIT: I have managed to find paragraphs containing images in DocA using the following code. I understand that it is a very hack-ish way as I am a complete beginner in python-docx, but here it is:

for x in document.paragraphs:
    if "<w:pict" in x._p.xml:
        print(x._p.xml)

Using this code, I successfully managed to find paragraphs containing the said images in the document. However, I am still unable to copy the image over to DocB (It appears as blanks in DocB), which is because (based on my understanding) I didn't extract the image data from the .docx file DocA.

EDIT 2:

Here is the XML of the Paragraph object containing the images:

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The images are in the docx file, but do not show up in document.inline_shapes (python-docx), hence I have no idea how to continue.. any help appreciated :)

Answer 1

This may not be a direct answer to your question, but it is worth considering.

If you have control over docA, have you considered the use of a docx template? In my problem I needed to generate reports from a template, so I had to copy information from python variables into a document, to generate a report. I found this project library which does replacement: https://github.com/elapouya/python-docx-template

Finally, you can replace the content from your variables like this:

from docxtpl import DocxTemplate

doc = DocxTemplate("my_word_template.docx")
context = { 'company_name' : "World company" }
doc.render(context)
doc.save("generated_doc.docx")

I have not checked but I believe this does preserve formatting. Here is an example of what my template looked like before replacing variables: