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# last-word

Zero-dependency `.docx` writer + reader for agentic word-processing documents —
a JSON document model with **markdown bridges**. The Python mirror of PHP
[`particle-academy/last-word`](https://github.com/Particle-Academy/last-word) and
Node [`@particle-academy/last-word`](https://github.com/Particle-Academy/last-word-js).
Sister to [`holy-sheet`](https://github.com/Particle-Academy/holy-sheet) (xlsx)
and [`dark-slide`](https://github.com/Particle-Academy/dark-slide) (pptx).

The point is the **Editor round-trip**: a WYSIWYG editor (react-fancy `Editor`)
speaks markdown; Word speaks `.docx`. LastWord bridges the two through one JSON
model — `from_markdown → to_bytes` to export a real Word file, `read →
to_markdown` to import one — with no converter sandwich (`python-docx`,
`mammoth`, `pandoc`) in between.

```python
import last_word

# Markdown in…
doc = last_word.from_markdown("""# Q3 Report

Revenue was **up 12%** — see the [dashboard](https://example.com).

- Wins
  - Enterprise renewals
- Risks
""")

# …Word file out.
data: bytes = last_word.to_bytes(doc)
last_word.write(doc, "report.docx")

# And back: .docx → model → markdown for the editor.
imported = last_word.read(data)
markdown = last_word.to_markdown(imported)
```

## The document model

A `Doc` is `{"title"?, "blocks"}`. Blocks are JSON-friendly discriminated
unions — exactly what an agent emits:

| Block | Shape |
| --- | --- |
| heading | `{"type": "heading", "level": 1-6, "runs": […]}` |
| paragraph | `{"type": "paragraph", "runs": […], "align"?}` |
| list | `{"type": "list", "ordered"?, "items": [{"runs": […], "children"?}]}` (nesting ≥ 3 deep) |
| table | `{"type": "table", "rows": [{"header"?, "cells": [{"blocks": […]}]}]}` |
| code | `{"type": "code", "language"?, "text"}` |
| quote | `{"type": "quote", "blocks": […]}` |
| image | `{"type": "image", "src": "data:image/png;base64,…", "widthPx"?, "heightPx"?, "alt"?}` |
| pageBreak | `{"type": "pageBreak"}` |
| hr | `{"type": "hr"}` |

A `Run` is an inline span: `{"text", "bold"?, "italic"?, "underline"?,
"strike"?, "code"?, "link"?, "color"?, "highlight"?}` (colors are `#RRGGBB`).

**It is plain `dict`s, deliberately — not dataclasses.** The model arrives as
loose JSON from an agent and the **Validator** is the gate. A dataclass would
move the gate into a constructor and reject exactly the near-miss emissions
`validate_and_repair()` exists to fix. For editor and type-checker support,
`last_word.schema.types` carries `TypedDict` definitions of every shape; nothing
at runtime constructs or checks against them.

## API

Module-level functions — Python's namespace is a module, so the peers' static
`Agent` class becomes the package itself (`last_word.agent` is the same surface
if you prefer the qualified form):

- `validate(doc)` → structured errors `[{"path", "message"}]` (empty = valid)
- `validate_and_repair(doc)` → `{"ok", "schema", "errors"}` (coerces strings to
  runs, clamps heading levels, drops unknown block types with the error
  retained). Never mutates the document you pass in.
- `to_bytes(doc)` → `bytes` (deterministic output)
- `write(doc, path)` → `{"path", "bytes", "blocks"}` — **synchronous**
- `read(bytes_or_path)` / `from_bytes(data)` → `Doc` (reads `.docx`, legacy
  `.doc`, `.odt` and `.rtf`, decided from the bytes; tolerates Word-authored
  files — outlineLvl headings, named highlights, unknown constructs degrade to
  paragraphs)
- `to_markdown(doc)` / `from_markdown(md)` → the Editor bridge (GFM: headings,
  `**`/`*`/`~~`, inline code, links, nested lists, tables, fenced code,
  blockquotes, images, `---`, `<!-- pagebreak -->`)
- `describe(doc)` → plain-text summary (title, block counts, word count)
- `json_schema()` → JSON Schema (draft 2020-12) for LLM tool-use
- `version()` → package version

Invalid input raises `last_word.SchemaException`, which carries the same
structured `errors` list rather than making you re-validate to find out why.

Markdown is lossy only where GFM has no syntax: underline / color / highlight
decorations, paragraph alignment and image pixel sizes are dropped on
`to_markdown`; everything else round-trips, page breaks included.

Images are embedded from data URLs (PNG/JPEG); when `widthPx`/`heightPx` are
omitted the intrinsic size is sniffed from the bytes (PNG IHDR / JPEG SOF) and
capped at 6.5in width keeping aspect.

## Reading .doc, .odt and .rtf

`read()` decides the format from the bytes, never a file name, and returns the
same document shape for all four:

| Format | Comes through | Does not |
|---|---|---|
| `.docx` | everything above | — |
| `.doc` (Word 97-2003) | paragraphs, headings (by built-in style, so localised names work), direct bold / italic / underline / strike, hyperlinks, nested bulleted and numbered lists, tables with header rows, page breaks | style-inherited formatting, fonts / sizes / colours, images, text boxes, headers / footers / footnotes / comments, merged cells, title |
| `.odt` | headings, paragraphs, bold / italic / underline / strike, hyperlinks, nested lists, tables with header rows and merged cells, spaces / tabs / line breaks, page breaks, title | images and frames, footnotes, comments, tracked deletions, fonts / sizes / colours |
| `.rtf` | headings (style name or outline level), direct bold / italic / underline / strike, hyperlinks, nested lists, tables (header rows where `\trhdr` marks them), Unicode, `\ansicpg` code pages, title | images and objects, footnotes, headers / footers, fonts / sizes / colours, merged cells, double-byte code pages written as raw bytes |

The compound-file (MS-CFB) and Word binary (MS-DOC) readers are this package's
own code: still no dependencies. A document converted from `.docx` to `.doc` and
`.odt` by LibreOffice reads back identical to the `.docx`; the `.rtf` differs
only in a header-row flag LibreOffice does not write. The PHP and Node engines
assert the same result on the same bytes (`tests/data/formats/report.read.json`).

What it cannot read it refuses with `UnsupportedFormatException` (a
`ValueError`), whose `format` names what the bytes are: `doc` for a Word 6/95 or
encrypted file, `xls`, `ppt`, `msg` or `cfb` for another compound file, `xlsx`,
`pptx`, `ods`, `odp`, or `unknown`. A damaged file in a supported format raises
`RuntimeError` instead.

## Document versions as ops

A version history cannot keep a .docx per edit, and hashing the bytes cannot
keep a one-word edit small. `last_word.diff(a, b)` is the op list that turns
document `a` into document `b`; store `diff(newer, older)` and a version is the
ops that restore it.

```python
import last_word

ops = last_word.diff(before, after)
# [{"op": "blocks.replace", "path": "/blocks/4/rows/1/cells/1/blocks", "index": 0, "block": {...}}]

last_word.reduce(before, ops)                                 # equals `after`, key order aside
last_word.diff(doc, last_word.read(last_word.to_bytes(doc)))  # [] -- a save without a change records nothing
```

- **Exact.** `reduce(a, diff(a, b))` equals `b`. The ops are verified by
  replaying them; if they do not reproduce `b`, the diff is one `doc.replace`.
- **Small.** Every list is aligned by content -- the blocks, a quote's blocks, a
  list's items and children, a table's rows, a row's cells, a cell's blocks -- so
  rewording a paragraph inside a table cell is one `blocks.replace` at that
  cell's path, and moving a block is one `blocks.move`.
- **Same file, no ops.** Documents that write the same file (`equivalent(a, b)`:
  merged runs, a header row's bold, a dropped empty paragraph) diff to `[]`.
  Both documents must be valid, because that check writes them.
- **Interchangeable with PHP and Node.** The same two documents give the same
  ops, in the same order, as `Agent::diff` and `Agent.diff`, so a history
  written by any engine replays in the others. Equality is therefore PHP's:
  `1` and `1.0` differ, and so do `True` and `1`.

Blocks have no ids, so a list op names the list by JSON Pointer and the item by
index:

| op | `path` ends in | value key |
|---|---|---|
| `blocks.insert` / `remove` / `move` / `replace` | `blocks` | `block` |
| `items.*` | `items` or `children` | `item` |
| `rows.*` | `rows` | `row` |
| `cells.*` | `cells` | `cell` |
| `doc.set` `{key, value}` | -- (null removes; `blocks` refused) | `value` |
| `doc.replace` `{doc}` | -- | `doc` |

`insert` clamps its index and creates a missing list; `remove`, `replace` and
`move` skip an index out of range; `move` removes at `from`, then inserts at
`to`. `reduce` never modifies its input and skips any op whose path, position
or key does not resolve. `op_schema()` is the JSON Schema for one op, for
validating ops on the wire or registering the vocabulary as an LLM tool.

## Moving between runtimes

The three engines are the same library. Only the call shape changes:

| | PHP | Node | Python |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| import | `use LastWord\Agent;` | `import { Agent } from "@particle-academy/last-word"` | `import last_word` |
| bytes | `Agent::toBytes($doc)` | `Agent.toBytes(doc)` | `last_word.to_bytes(doc)` |
| write | `Agent::write($doc, $path)` | `await Agent.write(doc, path)` | `last_word.write(doc, path)` |
| read | `Agent::read($bytes)` | `Agent.read(bytes)` | `last_word.read(data)` |
| markdown | `Agent::fromMarkdown($md)` | `Agent.fromMarkdown(md)` | `last_word.from_markdown(md)` |
| repair | `Agent::validateAndRepair($doc)` | `Agent.validateAndRepair(doc)` | `last_word.validate_and_repair(doc)` |
| errors | `SchemaException->errors` | `SchemaException.errors` | `SchemaException.errors` |
| versions | `Agent::diff($a, $b)`, `Agent::reduce($doc, $ops)` | `Agent.diff(a, b)`, `Agent.reduce(doc, ops)` | `last_word.diff(a, b)`, `last_word.reduce(doc, ops)` |

`write` is async in Node **only** because browsers have no synchronous
filesystem. PHP and Python are both synchronous, and that is the whole
difference.

## Cross-language parity, as a test result

The metadata slots match both mirrors exactly: the title lives in
`docProps/core.xml` (`dc:title`) and a code block's `language` in a
`lastword:code:{lang}` content-control tag (quotes use `lastword:quote`). The
**same file opens in any of the three engines**, and title plus code language
round-trip in every direction.

That is asserted, not asserted-to. `tests/test_parity_php.py` drives the **PHP
writer as a subprocess** and requires **byte-identical OOXML parts** for every
fixture, and `tests/test_cross_read.py` reads a frozen `.docx` written by the
**Node** writer and compares the recovered model. Run the suite with:

```sh
PHP_BIN=/path/to/php python -m pytest
```

A missing PHP interpreter is a loud skip locally and a hard failure under `CI` —
a parity suite that quietly stops comparing anything reads exactly like one that
compares everything.

Whole-`.docx` byte equality across engines is **not** a goal and never will be:
PHP writes through `ZipArchive` with its own timestamps and version-made-by,
this port writes a fixed 1980-01-01 DOS date. A reader sees parts, never the
compression.

## Requirements

Python 3.11+. No runtime dependencies, deliberately and permanently — `zipfile`
and `xml.etree.ElementTree` are standard library and generic infrastructure. An
all-in-one office library would own the document model, and the model is the
product.

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