How to use word with Python with python-docx

A script that asks many things to the user and after that it saves all the questions and answers into a word document. It uses the python-docx module to:

create an instance of Document
iterate trough a list to input something from the user
sove the inputs and outputs in a docx file

from docx import Document
from docx.shared import Inches
import os
'''
Copyright Giovanni Gatto
published on https://pythonprogramming.altervista.org
04.06.2021

Gets inputs from external file and publish result with
answers into another docx file

Uses python-docx module and built-in os module
v.0.1
'''

document = Document()

def get_questions(ask:str="file_to_open.txt", output="output.docx"):
	''' opens a file with a sequence of inputs '''
	'''
	ask		name of the file where the input text are
	output  the docx document with the result of the answers
	'''

	# opens a file that is in the string ask argument
	with open(ask) as file:
		ask = file.read()
	
	for line in ask.splitlines():
		a = input(line + " : ")
		document.add_paragraph(line + ": " + a)

	document.save(output)
	os.startfile(output)

get_questions()