Show HN: Paper-docx – agent-native Python-docx fork with 78% fewer DOCX failures

Show HN: Paper-docx – agent-native Python-docx fork with 78% fewer DOCX failures paper-instruments / paper-docx Public Notifications You must be signed in to change notification settings Fork 5 Star 100 Branches Tags Open more actions menu Latest commit History 1,144 Commits 1,144 Commits Folders and files Name Name Last commit message Last commit date .github .github docs docs features features src src tests tests typings/ behave typings/ behave .gitignore .gitignore CITATION.cff CITATION.cff CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md CONTRIBUTING.md CONTRIBUTING.md LICENSE LICENSE MANIFEST.in MANIFEST.in Makefile Makefile README.md README.md SECURITY.md SECURITY.md pyproject.toml pyproject.toml requirements-docs.txt requirements-docs.txt requirements-test.txt requirements-test.txt uv.lock uv.lock Repository files navigation paper-docx An import-compatible, agent-safe fork of python-docx for creating and editing Word documents without silent corruption. paper-docx is an import-compatible hard fork of python-docx for creating and editing Microsoft Word ( .docx ) documents.

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• paper-instruments / paper-docx Public Notifications You must be signed in to change notification settings Fork 5 Star 100 Branches Tags Open more actions menu Latest commit History 1,144 Commits 1,144 Commits Folders and files Name Name Last commit message Last commit date .github .github docs docs features features src src tests tests typings/ behave typings/ behave .gitignore .gitignore CITATION.cff CITATION.cff CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md CONTRIBUTING.md CONTRIBUTING.md LICENSE LICENSE MANIFEST.in MANIFEST.in Makefile Makefile README.md README.md SECURITY.md SECURITY.md pyproject.toml pyproject.toml requirements-docs.txt requirements-docs.txt requirements-test.txt requirements-test.txt uv.lock uv.lock Repository files navigation paper-docx An import-compatible, agent-safe fork of python-docx for creating and editing Word documents without silent corruption.
• paper-docx is an import-compatible hard fork of python-docx for creating and editing Microsoft Word ( .docx ) documents.
• It keeps the docx import name and upstream object model, and adds guarded inspection and editing APIs that refuse unsupported operations instead of guessing.
• Installation Use an activated virtual environment .
• python -m pip uninstall -y python-docx paper-docx python -m pip install paper-docx python -m paper_docx_doctor Both distributions provide the docx import package.
• Do not install python-docx and paper-docx in the same environment.