When replace word file content and save the word file, for loop only loops once

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My goal is to replace some specific content in word file, and then save the file to the old directory. I would like to do replace the same word file and generate multiple files. I used for loop and it failed to generate 3 files instead of only 1 file. I still can't see where the problem is. Can somebody help me ? Codes are like this:

from docx import Document
import os


def main():
    path = r'C:\Users\Sharon.X.Fang\Desktop'
    EXPERT_NAME = ['Yang','Xie','Wang']
    template_file_path = path+os.sep+'to Mr.Xie-invitation.docx'
    i = 0
    for name in EXPERT_NAME:
        for i in range(3):
            output_file_path = path+os.sep+str(i)+'to Mr.'+name+'-invitation.docx'
    i = i + 1

    variables = {
        "${EXPERT_NAME}": "Mr.Xie",
        "${Fee}": "1,000",
        "${Q_1}": "What is your hobby?",
        "${Q_2}": "How are you?",
                }
    
    template_document = Document(template_file_path)

    for variable_key, variable_value in variables.items():
        for paragraph in template_document.paragraphs:
            replace_text_in_paragraph(paragraph, variable_key, variable_value)

    template_document.save(output_file_path)
    

def replace_text_in_paragraph(paragraph, key, value):
    if key in paragraph.text:
       paragraph.text = paragraph.text.replace(key, value)
   
            
if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()
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1 Answers

I think the main problem was you had the document creation outside your loop:

def main():
    path = r'C:\Users\Sharon.X.Fang\Desktop'
    EXPERT_NAMES = ['Yang','Xie','Wang']
    template_file_path = path+os.sep+'to Mr.Xie-invitation.docx'

    for i, name in enumerate(EXPERT_NAMES):
        output_file_path = (
            path+os.sep+str(i)+'to Mr.'+name+'-invitation.docx'
        )

        variables = {
            "${EXPERT_NAME}": name,
            "${Fee}": "1,000",
            "${Q_1}": "What is your hobby?",
            "${Q_2}": "How are you?",
        }
    
        template_document = Document(template_file_path)
        replace_text_in_document(template_document, variables)
        template_document.save(output_file_path)


def replace_text_in_document(document, variables):    
    for variable_key, variable_value in variables.items():
        for paragraph in document.paragraphs:
            replace_text_in_paragraph(
                paragraph, variable_key, variable_value
            )


def replace_text_in_paragraph(paragraph, key, value):
    if key in paragraph.text:
       paragraph.text = paragraph.text.replace(key, value)
   
            
if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()
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