Writing a basic Word document

Microsoft (MS) Office is one of the most common pieces of software, and MS Word in particular is almost the de facto standard for editable documents. Generating docx documents is possible with automated scripts, which may help distribute reports in a format that's easily shared in many businesses.

In this recipe, we will learn how to generate a full Word document programmatically.

Getting ready

We'll use the python-docx module to process Word documents:

$ echo "python-docx==0.8.10" >> requirements.txt 
$ pip install -r requirements.txt 

How to do it...

1. Import python-docx and datetime:

   >>> import docx
   >>> from datetime import datetime
   

2. Define the context with the data to be stored in the report:

   >>> context = {
   ...     'date': datetime.now(),
   ...     'movies': ['Casablanca', 'The Sound of Music'...