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 ol

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("<", "<")
  escapee = escapee.replace(">", ">")
  escapee = escapee.replace("\"", """)
  escapee = escapee.replace("'", "'")
return escapee