[Python] How to create table from function and add to docx document

I have working code that builds a document with several tables using a for-loop. To keep the code clean I would like to break out the table creation into its own function but cannot see how to do this from the API doc.

Essentially, I want to call a function to create & return a Table() object and then add it to the document.

Is this do-able?

# this works fine

from docx import Document, document, table

document = Document()

table1 = document.add_table(rows=1, cols=4)
# more table1 building code here

table2 = document.add_table(rows=1, cols=4)
# more table2 building code here

document.save('foo.docx')


but refactoring like below will not build - I get TypeError: Table.init() got an unexpected keyword argument 'rows'

from docx import Document, document, table

document = Document()

document.add_table(build_mytable(somedata))
document.add_table(build_mytable(someotherdata))



def build_mytable(mydata):
table = docx.table.Table(rows=1, cols=4)
# more table building code here
return table

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