Read in whole text as string to list instead of each paragraph

Question

I read in a docx document and appended each paragraph to a list as a string using this code:

from docx import Document
paragraphs = []

document = Document('/path to/*.docx')
for para in document.paragraphs:
    para = para.text
    paragraphs.append(para)

Instead reading in each paragraph I would like to read in the whole text as one string and append it to a list. How do I have to modify the code above?

Have you looked to see what else is available from `document`? — Scott Hunter, Jun 10 '20 at 20:29
So you just want the full document text as a single item in a list? — siralexsir88, Jun 10 '20 at 20:33
Similar answer is here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/35871416/6317430 — siralexsir88, Jun 10 '20 at 20:39

Vaibhav Khandelwal · Accepted Answer · 2020-06-10T20:38:35.777

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You can simply concatenate all the paragraphs in a variable and then you can store the complete text in a list by appending as follows:

from docx import Document
text_com=""
paragraphs = []

document = Document('/path to/*.docx')
for para in document.paragraphs:
    text_com += para.text

paragraphs.append(text_com)

edited Jun 10 '20 at 20:38

answered Jun 10 '20 at 20:33

Vaibhav Khandelwal

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Read in whole text as string to list instead of each paragraph

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