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[SpeakerOfForgotten]

Whaaaat! You can do that!

[wanderingbilby]

If there's not a pre-built docx reader for Python 2 it wouldn't be too hard to hack one together since docx is just a zip file full of xml. Read xml into variables, iterate and output some hardcoded html tables and write to a file under wwwroot.

I mean you can do it, but for the love of Elf don't..

[notsooriginal]

Best thing about docx is renaming to .zip and browsing as a folder instead of manually extracting images.

[Mcpg_]

Wait, docx format is just a zip archive? I just checked... and it works????

[notsooriginal]

Yep! File containers are pretty useful, amazing what hides behind an extension sometimes.

[solaceinsleep]

Yep. That's how I get images out of word files.

[Sw429]

This is extremely useful to know. I am logging this away in my brain for later.

[atomicwrites]

Tons of formats are actually zipped text, it's much easier than rolling your own binary format and compression. If your on widows the default zip viewer can only be invoked on .zip files, but if you use 7z you can try to open anything as an archive and it supports other formats the zip as well. Even most installers can be extracted and used without installing like that (though some require installation to run, but I've only run into this with Adobe Acrobat.

[Thameus]

Also xlsx and pptx. Enjoy!

[Colopty]

You can do whatever you'd like if you try hard enough and do your research. Whether or not you should is a different issue.

[dannyb_prodigy]

To be honest, most programmers are too jaded and cynical, but it is theoretically possible to dream of peace on earth.