docx-mailmerge 0.1.0

Performs a Mail Merge on docx (Microsoft Office Word) files

Performs a Mail Merge on Office Open XML (docx) files. Can be used on any system without having to install Microsoft Office Word.

Installation

Installation with pip:

$ pip install docx-mailmerge

Usage

Open the file.

from mailmerge import MailMerge
document = MailMerge('input.docx')

List all merge fields.

print document.get_merge_fields()

Merge fields, supplied as kwargs.

document.merge(field1='docx Mail Merge',
               field2='Can be used for merging docx documents')

Merge table rows. In your template, add a MergeField to the row you would like to designate as template. Supply the name of this MergeField as anchor parameter. The second parameter contains the rows with key-value pairs for the MergeField replacements.

document.merge_rows('col1',
                    [{'col1': 'Row 1, Column 1', 'col2': 'Row 1 Column 1'},
                     {'col1': 'Row 2, Column 1', 'col2': 'Row 2 Column 1'},
                     {'col1': 'Row 3, Column 1', 'col2': 'Row 3 Column 1'}]

Write document to file. This should be a new file, as ZipFile cannot modify existing zip files.

document.write('output.docx')

Todo / Wish List

• Preserve formatting of the merge field, currently it defaults to the formatting of the containing text.

• Image merging.

Contributing

• Fork the repository on GitHub and start hacking

• Send a pull request with your changes