This article describes the process on how to remove comments in Word using Python with the help of detailed steps for the environment configuration and application writing. It introduces all the necessary resources like the namespaces, classes, methods, and properties that are required for developing the application. A runnable sample code is also provided that can be used to delete all comments in Word using Python and saving the resultant file as DOCX, DOC, or any other sup[ported format.
Steps to Remove Comments in Word using Python
- Set the development environment to use Aspose.Words for Python via .NET to remove comments
- Load the Word file using the Document class object that contains a few comments in it
- Get the collection of all the comments in the loaded file using the get_child_nodes() method
- Call the clear() method to remove all the comments
- Save the resultant Word file having no comments in it
The above steps provide a step-by-step process to delete comments in Word using Python by first loading the source Word file into the Document class object that contains methods to access the collection of comments. You can use the clear() method to delete all the comments from this collection. The comments collection is fetched using the node type COMMENT, however, you can use other node types also to fetch different nodes in the document.
Code to Remove Comments from Word Document using Python
This crisp code demonstrates how to delete all comments in Word using Python. Here the clear() method is used that removes all the comments however, if you want to remove a particular comment based upon some criteria like author name, date/time, replies, etc. you may use remove() or remove_at(index) methods. Similarly, if you want to delete all the replies to a comment, you may use remove_all_replies() method in the Comment class.
This code has taught us to remove all the comments from the Word file. If you want to create a Word file in Python, refer to the article on how to create Word document using Python.
