python-docx is a Python library for reading, creating, and updating Microsoft Word 2007+ (.docx) files.
pip install python-docx
>>> from docx import Document
>>> document = Document()
>>> document.add_paragraph("It was a dark and stormy night.")
<docx.text.paragraph.Paragraph object at 0x10f19e760>
>>> document.save("dark-and-stormy.docx")
>>> document = Document("dark-and-stormy.docx")
>>> document.paragraphs[0].text
'It was a dark and stormy night.'
More information is available in the python-docx documentation