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I can´t insert tab stops into a docx generated from html

I have a very specific use case where I need to insert tab stops into Word documents. My code works perfectly when using a docx that was created normally. However, the other part of my use case is that I extract the html from a text editor and turn it into a docx. The problem is with these documents that were generated from html, for some reason when running the same code to insert tab stops it does not work. The tab stop configuration gets created but it is not applied to the document. I cannot seem to find a way around it and any help would be deeply appreciated.
Below is a code sample:
from docx import Document
from docx.shared import Inches
from docx.enum.text import WD_TAB_ALIGNMENT, WD_TAB_LEADER
from htmldocx import HtmlToDocx
new_parser = HtmlToDocx()
new_html = """<p><span>some text</span></p>
<br>
<p><span>Some persons name</span></p>
<p><span>Another text</span></p>
<p><span>Some date</span></p>"""
document = Document()
new_parser.add_html_to_document(new_html, document)
for para in document.paragraphs:
tab_stops = para.paragraph_format.tab_stops
tab_stops.add_tab_stop(Inches(5.51),
WD_TAB_ALIGNMENT.RIGHT, WD_TAB_LEADER.DOTS)
document.save('new-file-name.docx')
When running this code the tab stops configuration gets created correctly in the docx, but it is not reflected in the document itself. Below you can see the configuration correctly created:
However, those tab stops are not visible in the document itself.
This function is supposed to run on Azure functions, so pywin32 is not an option to convert html to docx as it does not run on linux.
I have tried manually setting the styles of the document. I have tried using the api of convertapi, as well as using the library aspose.words but nothing seems to work. It seems that there is something about converting html to docx that precludes inserting tab stops.
Thank you very much in advance and any help is deeply appreciated.

Declaring path to invoke a template file python27

I have tried using various declarations for trying to invoke the template file but for some reason the script is failing to pick the template from the location specified and loading the reporting contents to the template and then exporting it to a pdf format.
The code i have attached hereby :
`#Build the html report using the html template and save to the set location
output_from_parsed_template = buildTemplate()
with open(r"C:\python_report_scripts\anram_report.html","wb") as fh:
fh.write(output_from_parsed_template)
#Convert html to pdf
subprocess.call('C:\omniformat\html2pdf995.exe r"C:\python_report_scripts\anram_report.html" r"C:\ANRAM_Requests\Working_folder\\'+sectionName+'.pdf"')
#Run a summary report when there is at least 1 section in the section list
if len(sectionInfo)>1:
#Flag that this is a summary report
summary = 1
#Generate the Existing Map image
MapExisting(summary)
#Generate the Existing Risk Graph image
RiskgraphExisting(summary)
#Generate the New Map Image
MapNew(summary)
#Generate the New Risk Graph image
RiskgraphNew(summary)
#Generate the tabular results for the report
populateResults(summary)
#Indicate that the report is a summary, which then forms the report title
#global sectionName
sectionName = 'SUMMARY - '+sectionName
#Build the html report using the html template and save to the set location
output_from_parsed_template = buildTemplate()
with open(r"C:\python_report_scripts\anram_report.html","wb") as fh:
fh.write(output_from_parsed_template)
#Convert html to pdf
subprocess.call('C:\omniformat\html2pdf995.exe r"C:\python_report_scripts\anram_report.html" r"C:\ANRAM_Requests\Working_folder\\'+sectionName+'.pdf"')`
So am i declaring it correctly ?
Please advise,

This line looks weird:
#Convert html to pdf
subprocess.call('C:\omniformat\html2pdf995.exe r"C:\python_report_scripts\anram_report.html" r"C:\ANRAM_Requests\Working_folder\\'+sectionName+'.pdf"')`
You seem to be mixing up Python quoting, Python raw strings, with shell quoting and you still have some double backslashes around...
I suggest:
Use subprocess.check_call instead, that way Python will report if there are any errors running the command.
Pass it a list, instead of a string, that way it's more clear which argument is which and you don't depend so much on shell quoting and word splitting.
Use raw strings consistently (r'...' or r"...", either one is fine.)
Use os.path.join to join paths!
So, putting it all together, try this instead:
# Convert html to pdf
subprocess.check_call([
r'C:\omniformat\html2pdf995.exe',
r'C:\python_report_scripts\anram_report.html',
os.path.join(r'C:\ANRAM_Requests\Working_folder', sectionName + '.pdf')
])
I hope this solves the issue you're seeing... Or, if it doesn't, at least gives you a more meaningful error message that you can act on.

how write hyperlink to local picture into the cell in openpyxl?

I use Python 2.7.3
I need to write hyperlink to local picture into the cell by openpyxl library.
when I need add hyperlink to web site I write something like this:
from openpyxl import Workbook
wb = Workbook()
dest_filename = r'empty_book.xlsx'
ws = wb.worksheets[0]
ws.title = 'Name'
hyperlink to local picture
ws.cell('B1').hyperlink = ('http://pythonhosted.org/openpyxl/api.html')
hyperlink to local picture
ws.cell('B2').hyperlink = ('1.png') # It doesn't work!
wb.save(filename = dest_filename)
I have 3 question:
how we can write hyperlink like VBA's style function:
ActiveCell.FormulaR1C1 = _
"=HYPERLINK(""http://stackoverflow.com/questions/ask"",""site"")"
with hyherlink and her name
how we can write hyperlink to local image?
ws.cell('B2').hyperlink = ('1.png') # It doesn't work! And I don't now what to do )
Plese, help me )
Can we use unicode hyperlinks to image? for example when I use
ws.cell('B1').hyperlink =
(u'http://pythonhosted.org/openpyxl/api.html') It fail with error!
for example we have picture 'russian_language_name.png' and we
create hyperlink in exel without any problem. We click to the cell,
and then print
'=Hyperlink("http://stackoverflow.com/questions/ask";"site_by_russian_language")
save document, unzip him. Then we go to him directory to xl->worksheets->sheet1.xml
and we see the title
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="true"?>
and then ...
row r="2" x14ac:dyDescent="0.25" spans="2:6">-<c r="B2" t="str" s="1"><f>HYPERLINK("http://stackoverflow.com/questions/ask","site_by_russian_language")</f><v>site_by_russian_language</v></c>
everything ok =) Exel supports unicode, but what about python's library openpyxl? It support the unicode in hyperlinks ?

As the files in the .xlsx file are XML files with UTF-8 encoding, Unicode hyperlinks are not a problem.

About Question 2, you need to include the full path of the file link, i think.
If you cannot access the file link in your Excel file, it's the security strategy of Excel that prohibits such actions.

I answered a similar question. Hope this helps.
Well, I could arrive at this. While there is no direct way to build a hyperlink, in your case we could do this way. I was able to build a hyperlink to an existing file using the below code.
wb=openpyxl.Workbook()
s = wb.get_sheet_by_name('Sheet')
s['B4'].value = '=HYPERLINK("C:\\Users\\Manoj.Waghmare\\Desktop\\script.txt", "newfile")'
s['B4'].style = 'Hyperlink'
wb.save('trial.xlsx')
By mentioning the style attribute as 'Hyperlink' is the key. All other code I have may not be of any much importance to you. style attribute would otherwise have a value of 'Normal' Strange thing is even without the style attribute, the hyperlink we working but just that it was lacking style! of course. Though strange, I have seen stranger things. Hope this helps.

Is there a simple way to write an ODT using Python?

My point is that using either pod (from appy framework, which is a pain to use for me) or the OpenOffice UNO bridge that seems soon to be deprecated, and that requires OOo.org to run while launching my script is not satisfactory at all.
Can anyone point me to a neat way to produce a simple yet clean ODT (tables are my priority) without having to code it myself all over again ?
edit: I'm giving a try to ODFpy that seems to do what I need, more on that later.

Your mileage with odfpy may vary. I didn't like it - I ended up using a template ODT, created in OpenOffice, oppening the contents.xml with ziplib and elementtree, and updating that. (In your case, it would create only the relevant table rows and table cell nodes), then recorded everything back.
It is actually straightforward, but for making ElementTree properly work with the XML namespaces. (it is badly documente) But it can be done. I don't have the example, sorry.

To edit odt files, my answer may not help, but if you want to create new odt files, you can use QTextDocument, QTextCursor and QTextDocumentWriter in PyQt4. A simple example to show how to write to an odt file:
>>>from pyqt4 import QtGui
# Create a document object
>>>doc = QtGui.QTextDocument()
# Create a cursor pointing to the beginning of the document
>>>cursor = QtGui.QTextCursor(doc)
# Insert some text
>>>cursor.insertText('Hello world')
# Create a writer to save the document
>>>writer = QtGui.QTextDocumentWriter()
>>>writer.supportedDocumentFormats()
[PyQt4.QtCore.QByteArray(b'HTML'), PyQt4.QtCore.QByteArray(b'ODF'), PyQt4.QtCore.QByteArray(b'plaintext')]
>>>odf_format = writer.supportedDocumentFormats()[1]
>>>writer.setFormat(odf_format)
>>>writer.setFileName('hello_world.odt')
>>>writer.write(doc) # Return True if successful
True
QTextCursor also can insert tables, frames, blocks, images. More information. More information at:
http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-4.8/qtextcursor.html
As a bonus, you also can print to a pdf file by using QPrinter.

Django/Python: Save an HTML table to Excel

I have an HTML table that I'd like to be able to export to an Excel file. I already have an option to export the table into an IQY file, but I'd prefer something that didn't allow the user to refresh the data via Excel. I just want a feature that takes a snapshot of the table at the time the user clicks the link/button.
I'd prefer it if the feature was a link/button on the HTML page that allows the user to save the query results displayed in the table. It would also be nice if the formatting from the HTML/CSS could be retained. Is there a way to do this at all? Or, something I can modify with the IQY?
I can try to provide more details if needed. Thanks in advance.

You can use the excellent xlwt module.
It is very easy to use, and creates files in xls format (Excel 2003).
Here is an (untested!) example of use for a Django view:
from django.http import HttpResponse
import xlwt
def excel_view(request):
normal_style = xlwt.easyxf("""
font:
name Verdana
""")
response = HttpResponse(mimetype='application/ms-excel')
wb = xlwt.Workbook()
ws0 = wb.add_sheet('Worksheet')
ws0.write(0, 0, "something", normal_style)
wb.save(response)
return response

Use CSV. There's a module in Python ("csv") to generate it, and excel can read it natively.

Excel support opening an HTML file containing a table as a spreadsheet (even with CSS formatting).
You basically have to serve that HTML content from a django view, with the content-type application/ms-excel as Roberto said.
Or if you feel adventurous, you could use something like Downloadify to prepare the file to be downloaded on the client side.