Accessing List within Table

[s3nn]

Hey,

First of all great project!

I just have a question regarding accessing lists (bullet points) within tables. Basically, I have many documents that are comprised of tables that have identical structure (rows / columns etc) and I'm trying to extract all data from all tables from multiple documents in a meaningful way. The problem is some cells contain bullet points (lists).
Is there any way to get all text in a table cell with one method?

From some testing, it appears if I use get_value / get_values it doesn't return the text that is part of the List. However, I can use get_cells --> get_lists to extract the text, but I would need to check for the presence of any lists for each cell. Lastly, I could also use get_styled_elements for each cell, but this might get tricky.

What would you recommend? Thank you in advance and keep up the excellent work.

[jdum]

Hi, Le mar. 26 févr. 2019 à 02:31, s3nn <notifications@github.com> a écrit :

Hey, First of all great project! I just have a question regarding accessing lists (bullet points) within tables. Basically, I have many documents that are comprised of tables that have identical structure (rows / columns etc) and I'm trying to extract all data from all tables from multiple documents in a meaningful way. The problem is some cells contain bullet points (lists). Is there any way to get all text in a table cell with one method? From some testing, it appears if I use get_value / get_values it doesn't return the text that is part of the List.

yes, .value will try to cast to a basic type python type (typically a sting or a number)

However, I can use get_cells --> get_lists to extract the text, but I would need to check for the presence of

here it depends of the nature of your documents: - apparently you have some nested ODF elements into the cell, so the right methods is to analyse it step by step. So making lines of code, using get_cells --> get_lists and such. Note that get_lists should send back None if no list. - To retrieve text content at the risk of losing some structure, I would try cell.text() cell.text_recursive() or cell.text_content() (i think the later one is the more powerful). any lists for each cell. Lastly, I could also use get_styled_elements for

each cell, but this might get tricky. What would you recommend? Thank you in advance and keep up the excellent work.

regards, jd

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[s3nn]

Hey jd,

Thanks for your recommendation, it looks like cell.text_content is what I'm looking for!

Sincerely,
s3nn