Python-docx Missing Default Template

I recently installed the python-docx package and I'm having some trouble with the default template. I'm just setting up a document and have the following code (in a file called mai

Solution 1:

There was a problem in release v0.8.9 that raised this error in certain environments. If you install v0.8.10 this should go away.

$ pip install python-docx==0.8.10

In some Ubuntu and possibly Mint distributions having an older setuptools version, you may also need to update setuptools:

$ pip install -U setuptools

For whatever reason, those distributions have a v20.x setuptools where the latest is v40.x.