Accessing Comments

[TylerReedMC]

I've read the docs and perused the API but can't find any way to access comments in a document. For example, if you highlight some text in Word and add a comment for that text. Are comments exposed by python-docx?

[jlovegren0]

There's no API support for it, not any support at all except to access the raw xml. The very basic structures are there to load it, and the package has plenty of general purpose XML parsing sugar, so it wouldn't be a big stretch to add support in the future. Here is how to get the XML:

from docx import Document
from docx.opc.constants import RELATIONSHIP_TYPE as RT
p = Document('myfile_with_comments.docx')
cpart = p.part.part_related_by(RT.COMMENTS)
xmlString = cpart.blob
print(xmlString)

[scanny]

Closing in favor of #93