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TypeError: 'in <string>' requires string as left operand, not Tag #37

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raphy@raphy:~/md2docxpyTest$ source .md2docx/bin/activate
(.md2docx) raphy@raphy:~/md2docxpyTest$ python
Python 3.12.3 (main, Jan 22 2026, 20:57:42) [GCC 13.3.0] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import sys
>>> from md2docx_python.src.md2docx_python import markdown_to_word

>>> markdown_to_word("/home/raphy/md2docxpyTest/src/md-assets/sample-filescom-formatted-report.md", "/home/raphy/md2docxpyTest/src/word-assets/sample-filescom-formatted-report.docx")
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/home/raphy/md2docxpyTest/.md2docx/lib/python3.12/site-packages/md2docx_python/src/md2docx_python.py", line 35, in markdown_to_word
    paragraph.add_run(child)
  File "/home/raphy/md2docxpyTest/.md2docx/lib/python3.12/site-packages/docx/text/paragraph.py", line 41, in add_run
    run.text = text
    ^^^^^^^^
  File "/home/raphy/md2docxpyTest/.md2docx/lib/python3.12/site-packages/docx/text/run.py", line 225, in text
    self._r.text = text
    ^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/home/raphy/md2docxpyTest/.md2docx/lib/python3.12/site-packages/docx/oxml/text/run.py", line 143, in text
    _RunContentAppender.append_to_run_from_text(self, text)
  File "/home/raphy/md2docxpyTest/.md2docx/lib/python3.12/site-packages/docx/oxml/text/run.py", line 279, in append_to_run_from_text
    appender.add_text(text)
  File "/home/raphy/md2docxpyTest/.md2docx/lib/python3.12/site-packages/docx/oxml/text/run.py", line 284, in add_text
    self.add_char(char)
  File "/home/raphy/md2docxpyTest/.md2docx/lib/python3.12/site-packages/docx/oxml/text/run.py", line 297, in add_char
    elif char in "\r\n":
         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
TypeError: 'in <string>' requires string as left operand, not Tag

python :

(.md2docx) raphy@raphy:~/md2docxpyTest$ python --version
Python 3.12.3

Ubuntu 24.04

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