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Find and replace string with empty paragraph inside .doc and .docx word document

Sample environment:
Dictionary = {"camel":"create-para","donkey":"monkey","cat":"dog"}
cwd = os.getcwd(".")
for files in cwd
if files.endswith(".doc") or files.endswith(".doc"):
for Dictionary in files:
do the changes
2 things to notice:
create-para in dictionary means that remove string1 and create a new paragraph in place of string1.
In VBA macro it is like this:
Dictionary = {"camel":"^p","donkey":"monkey","cat":"dog"}
However, how to do that?
For example, I want to remove the word materials and replace it with a paragraph
Before
After

I'm not fully sure what you are trying to do here, what is for Dictionary in files:? Aren't Dictionary and files two separate variables? Also, I think your if condition should be:
if files.endswith(".doc") or files.endswith(".docx"):
If you are trying to change a doc/docx file, you can achieve it using python-docx. The documentation should be able to help you out. If you want to replace paragraphs, you can use this snippet from the library's GitHub page. If you want to add paragraphs, you can use the add_paragraph function:
document.add_paragraph('A plain paragraph having some ')

How to add numbers in link (loop)

I'm writing a script where I try to scrape data from json files. The website link structure looks like this:
https://go.lime-go.com/395012/Organization/pase1009/
I want the Python script to go through a certain number and try to visit them. For example, right now the link is at pase1009. After the script has visited this link I want it to go to pase1010 and so on.
I'm really new to Python and trying to learn how to use loops, count, etc. but don't get it.
My PY code:
rlista = "https://go.lime-go.com/395012/Organization/pase1009/getEmployees"
page = self.driver.get(rlista)
time.sleep(2)
Best regards,
Tobias

You can combine several strings to one with the +-operator.
So you could save your base link in a variable and add the number afterwards in the loop.
Would look something like this:
baseLink = "https://your-link.com/any/further/stuff/pase"
for k in range(1000,1010,2):
link = baseLink + str(k)
print(link)
There your links would be
https://your-link.com/any/further/stuff/pase1000
https://your-link.com/any/further/stuff/pase1002
https://your-link.com/any/further/stuff/pase1004
https://your-link.com/any/further/stuff/pase1006
https://your-link.com/any/further/stuff/pase1008
as k will start with 1000, increment by 2 and stop before 1010 (range(start, stop, increment)).

Is there a way in Zapier to convert a python output to separate lines?

I have a Python output in a Zapier output that looks like this:
I want to be able to use this in the body of gmail as separate lines. However, presently, it looks like this when I use that python output as the step. The screenshot below is the email returned after I test.
Is there a filter or a pythonic way to do this within Zapier?
The output would ideally look like this:
https://hectv.sharefile.com/dxxxxxxxfcebd247d09
https://hectv.sharefile.com/dxxxxxxx729cd9494
https://hectv.sharefile.com/d-xxxxxx84622a
Thank you.

William from Zapier answered this for me.
If we're generating a line item array with the code step and we need individual items, you'll want to add a Formatter - Utility - Line Item to Text action.
This action will go just after the Run Python step and should take the Sharefile Output as the input for the formatter. From there, the formatter can break the line item array down into individual text strings that you can assign in the zaps remaining steps. :)
For more information on Formatter check out our article here: https://zapier.com/help/create/format/get-started-with-formatter
For more info on Line Item to Text, check out this article: https://zapier.com/help/create/format/convert-line-items-into-text-strings
Using Line Item to Text, the zap won't care if there are 10 items or a single item, it should still return the same individual items. The main concern there is that the test that is done with Line Item to Text should be a test that include the MAX number of items. This way those items can be assigned in the following steps and used when they're present or ignored when they are not.

Python loop error in SPSS syntax only if i run the same code twice

I'm quite new in python programming.
I'm trying to automate some tabulations in SPSS using python (and i kind of managed it...) using a loop and some python code, but it works fine only the first time i run the syntax, the second time it tabulates only once:
I have an SPSS file with different projects merged together (i.e. different countries) , so first i try to extract a list of projects using a built in function.
Once i have my list of project i run a loop and i change the spss syntax for the case selection and tabulation.
this is the code:
begin program.
import spss
#Function that extracts the data from spss
def DatiDaSPSS(vars, num):
if num == 0:
num = spss.GetCaseCount()
if vars == None:
varNums = range(spss.GetVariableCount())
else:
allvars = [spss.GetVariableName(i) for i in range(spss.GetVariableCount())]
varNums = [allvars.index(i) for i in vars]
data = spss.Cursor(varNums)
pydata = data.fetchmany(num)
data.close()
return pydata
#store the result of the function into a list:
all_prj=DatiDaSPSS(vars=["Project"],num=0)
#remove duplicates and keep only the country that i need:
prj_list=list(set([i[0] for i in all_prj]))
#loop for the tabulation:
for i in range(len(prj_list)):
prj_now=str(prj_list[i])
spss.Submit("""
compute filter_$=Project='%s'.
filter by filter_$.
exe.
TEXT "Country"
/OUTLINE HEADING="%s" TITLE="Country".
CTABLES
/VLABELS VARIABLES=HisInterviewer HisResult DISPLAY=DEFAULT
/TABLE HisInterviewer [C][COUNT F40.0, ROWPCT.COUNT PCT40.1] BY HisResult [C]
/CATEGORIES VARIABLES=HisInterviewer HisResult ORDER=A KEY=VALUE EMPTY=EXCLUDE TOTAL=YES
POSITION=AFTER
/CRITERIA CILEVEL=95.
""" %(prj_now,prj_now))
end program.
When i run it the second time it shows only the last value of the list (and only one tabulation). If i restart SPSS it works fine the first time.
Is it because of the function?
i'm using spss25

can I reply myself, should i edit the discussion or maybe delete it? i think i found out the reason, i guess the function picks up only the values that are already selected, i tried now adding this SPSS code before the begin and it seems to be working:
use all.
exe.
begin program.
...
at the last loop there is a filter on the data and i removed it before of running the script. please let me know if you want me to edit or remove the message

Extracting data from MS Word

I am looking for a way to extract / scrape data from Word files into a database. Our corporate procedures have Minutes of Meetings with clients documented in MS Word files, mostly due to history and inertia.
I want to be able to pull the action items from these meeting minutes into a database so that we can access them from a web-interface, turn them into tasks and update them as they are completed.
Which is the best way to do this:
VBA macro from inside Word to create CSV and then upload to the DB?
VBA macro in Word with connection to DB (how does one connect to MySQL from VBA?)
Python script via win32com then upload to DB?
The last one is attractive to me as the web-interface is being built with Django, but I've never used win32com or tried scripting Word from python.
EDIT: I've started extracting the text with VBA because it makes it a little easier to deal with the Word Object Model. I am having a problem though - all the text is in Tables, and when I pull the strings out of the CELLS I want, I get a strange little box character at the end of each string. My code looks like:
sFile = "D:\temp\output.txt"
fnum = FreeFile
Open sFile For Output As #fnum
num_rows = Application.ActiveDocument.Tables(2).Rows.Count
For n = 1 To num_rows
Descr = Application.ActiveDocument.Tables(2).Cell(n, 2).Range.Text
Assign = Application.ActiveDocument.Tables(2).Cell(n, 3).Range.Text
Target = Application.ActiveDocument.Tables(2).Cell(n, 4).Range.Text
If Target = "" Then
ExportText = ""
Else
ExportText = Descr & Chr(44) & Assign & Chr(44) & _
Target & Chr(13) & Chr(10)
Print #fnum, ExportText
End If
Next n
Close #fnum
What's up with the little control character box? Is some kind of character code coming across from Word?

Word has a little marker thingy that it puts at the end of every cell of text in a table.
It is used just like an end-of-paragraph marker in paragraphs: to store the formatting for the entire paragraph.
Just use the Left() function to strip it out, i.e.
Left(Target, Len(Target)-1))
By the way, instead of
num_rows = Application.ActiveDocument.Tables(2).Rows.Count
For n = 1 To num_rows
Descr = Application.ActiveDocument.Tables(2).Cell(n, 2).Range.Text
Try this:
For Each row in Application.ActiveDocument.Tables(2).Rows
Descr = row.Cells(2).Range.Text

Well, I've never scripted Word, but it's pretty easy to do simple stuff with win32com. Something like:
from win32com.client import Dispatch
word = Dispatch('Word.Application')
doc = word.Open('d:\\stuff\\myfile.doc')
doc.SaveAs(FileName='d:\\stuff\\text\\myfile.txt', FileFormat=?) # not sure what to use for ?
This is untested, but I think something like that will just open the file and save it as plain text (provided you can find the right fileformat) – you could then read the text into python and manipulate it from there. There is probably a way to grab the contents of the file directly, too, but I don't know it off hand; documentation can be hard to find, but if you've got VBA docs or experience, you should be able to carry them across.
Have a look at this post from a while ago: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2002-October/168785.html Scroll down to COMTools.py; there's some good examples there.
You can also run makepy.py (part of the pythonwin distribution) to generate python "signatures" for the COM functions available, and then look through it as a kind of documentation.

You could use OpenOffice. It can open word files, and also can run python macros.

I'd say look at the related questions on the right -->
The top one seems to have some good ideas for going the python route.

how about saving the file as xml. then using python or something else and pull the data out of word and into the database.

It is possible to programmatically save a Word document as HTML and to import the table(s) contained into Access. This requires very little effort.