Create table object free from its document

[buhtz]

This is how I do create a table in a docx document currently.

doc = docx.Document()
tab = doc.add_table(rows=300, cols=5)

So the table object is "connected" to its parent document.

Is there a way to create a table object without having a connection to a parent object and add it to the document later? Somehow like this?

doc = docx.Document()
tab_one = docx.Table(rows=300, cols=5)
tab_two = docx.Table(rows=100, cols=3)

doc.add_table(tab_two)
doc.add_table(tab_one)

Or (as a workaround) can I move a table object from one document instance to another like this?

doc_temp = docx.Document()
tab = doc_temp.add_table(rows=300, cols=5)

doc_main = docx.Document()
doc_main.add_table(tab)

The background of my question is that I do create multiple tables with 100-300 rows and do formatting operations on each of its cells. So there is a lot of row and cell iterations going on which cost a lot of performance.

Doing this in multiprocessing where each worker has its own table object would increase the performance. I would like to create multiple tables in parallel and adding them to the document in a later step.

It is also clear that multiprocessing isn't the whole and best solution for a performance problem. Such a problem isn't solved just with adding more CPU resources into it. The algorithm itself should be optimized. For me the mutliprocessing is just one step of the way to a better soltion.

EDIT: As a real world example here you can see how I create docx-tables based on pandas.DataFrame objects.

[buhtz]

X-Post https://stackoverflow.com/q/76270036/4865723

[scanny]

This is the approach I think we'll want to pursue if we're able to attend to this use case:
#1209 (comment)

More in the SO question linked above.