How to add a table inside a header/footer with python and python-docx

Question

I want to add a table of one row and three columns to my header. Any advice ?

I try with:

from docx import Document

document = Document()
section = document.sections[0]
header = section.header
table = header.add_table(rows=1, cols=3)  # method not yet implemented !

document.save('test.docx')

But obviously doesn't work

Answer 1

header.add_table() is implemented and should work. The implementation was recent (a couple months ago), so try upgrading your python-docx install:

pip install -U python-docx

Note that .add_table() takes three parameters, a row-count, a column-count, and a width, so something like this:

from docx.shared import Inches

table = header.add_table(1, 3, Inches(6))

The documentation for that method is here:
https://python-docx.readthedocs.io/en/latest/api/section.html#header-and-footer-objects