Text-Replace in docx and save the changed file with python-docx

Question

I'm trying to use the python-docx module to replace a word in a file and save the new file with the caveat that the new file must have exactly the same formatting as the old file, but with the word replaced. How am I supposed to do this?

The docx module has a savedocx that takes 7 inputs:

• document
• coreprops
• appprops
• contenttypes
• websettings
• wordrelationships
• output

How do I keep everything in my original file the same except for the replaced word?

Answer 1

In addition to @ramil, you have to escape some characters before placing them as string values into the XML, so this worked for me:

def escape(escapee):
  escapee = escapee.replace("&", "&")
  escapee = escapee.replace("<", "&lt;")
  escapee = escapee.replace(">", "&gt;")
  escapee = escapee.replace("\"", "&quot;")
  escapee = escapee.replace("'", "&apos;")
return escapee