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