can't open a .docx file

[song147liang]

The code is like this,

from docx import Document
from docx.shared import Inches
document=Document('123.docx')

but i get an error like this,

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:/Python27/myDocx.py", line 5, in
document=Document('123.docx')
File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\python_docx-0.8.5-py2.7.egg\docx\api.py", line 28, in Document
raise ValueError(tmpl % (docx, document_part.content_type))
ValueError: file '123.docx' is not a Word file, content type is 'application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.themeManager+xml'

How to handle this problem?

[scanny]

What application did you use to create 123.docx?

And does it open up okay in Microsoft Word?

That's an odd content type for it to have. It sounds like a Microsoft Office theme file, one that only contains color palettes and perhaps certain styles.

[kmarcello]

The same issue here and I have used Microsoft office to create a name.docx

[lieuzhenghong]

@scanny, I have the same issue and the file opens perfectly fine in LibreOffice Writer, Microsoft Word online and Google Docs (after conversion).

ValueError: file './form_letter.doc' is not a Word file, content type is 'application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.themeManager+xml'

I tried to view the XML file with opc browse file.doc core.xml but this gives KeyError: No item with name 'core.xml'.

Could it be because the version of Microsoft Word that was used to build the file was too old?

[scanny]

The opc command should be:

opc browse file.docx \[Content_Types\].xml

It's odd for the file to end with .doc. Usually that means it's saved in the legacy pre-Word 2007 format.

[lieuzhenghong]

It's odd for the file to end with .doc. Usually that means it's saved in the legacy pre-Word 2007 format.

Does this library not work for the legacy .doc format?

Below are the results of running opc browse file.docx \[Content_Types\].xml:

opc browse form_letter.doc \[Content_Types\].xml

<?xml version=\'1.0\' encoding=\'UTF-8\' standalone=\'yes\'?>
<Types xmlns="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/package/2006/content-types">  
  <Default Extension="rels" ContentType="application/vnd.openxmlformats-package.relationships+xml"/>
  <Default Extension="xml" ContentType="application/xml"/>
  <Override PartName="/theme/theme/theme1.xml" ContentType="application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.theme+xml"/>
  <Override PartName="/theme/theme/themeManager.xml" ContentType="application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.themeManager+xml"/>
</Types>

[lieuzhenghong]

@scanny Sorry, I RTFM-d and

You can open any Word 2007 or later file this way (.doc files from Word 2003 and earlier won’t work). While you might not be able to manipulate all the contents yet, whatever is already in there will load and save just fine.

I converted the .doc file to .docx and now it works. Thank you!

[scanny]

Glad you got it working :)

[mohammedyunus009]

Helps convert doc to docx. this code u may include in your script

import glob
import subprocess

for doc in glob.iglob("*.doc"):
    subprocess.call(['soffice', '--headless', '--convert-to', 'docx', doc])

DISCLAIMER: it will work only on linux(ubuntu )

[shwangdev]

where can I download the "soffice" binary for windows?