How to get the section number a paragraph is in?

[chribonn]

How can one iterate though docx.document.Document.paragraphs to get the section in which a paragraph resides?

I have a sample Word Document and would like to track particular styles paragraphs by Page number and section number.

[The document is at Word Document .

If the code is tracking style names starting with Column, the expected output would be as shown in https://github.com/chribonn/summariseDocx/blob/main/Test.md.

Thanks

[scanny]

There is a new API call on Section named .iter_inner_content() you can use for that:
https://python-docx.readthedocs.io/en/latest/api/section.html#docx.section.Section.iter_inner_content

Something like:

for section in document.sections:
    for block_item in section.iter_inner_content():
        if isinstance(block_item, Paragraph):
            ... handle paragraph case
        elif isinstance(block_item, Table):
            ... handle Table case

I think the imports are docx.text.paragraph.Paragraph and docx.table.Table but I'm sure you can sort that out :)