manipulating PowerPoint with Python?

Greg Wilson

Hi. Has anyone ever written scripts to extract data from PowerPoint using
Python? I know I could dredge through the VB examples in MSDN, and
translate, but if someone's already done this, I'd be grateful for a few
examples. (I have slides done in PPT that I want to convert to simple
HTML --- using "Save as HTML" in PPT creates a lot more goo than I want to
have to wade through.)

Thanks,
Greg

Jul 18 '05 #1

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Aurélien Géron

> Hi. Has anyone ever written scripts to extract data from PowerPoint using

Python? I know I could dredge through the VB examples in MSDN, and
translate, but if someone's already done this, I'd be grateful for a few
examples. (I have slides done in PPT that I want to convert to simple
HTML --- using "Save as HTML" in PPT creates a lot more goo than I want to
have to wade through.)

Thanks,
Greg

Couldn't you use "Save as HTML" in PPT and then write a simple parser that
would remove the goo? I really don't know which is better because I haven't
seen your ppt generated HTML files, but it's another direction you may want
to look at.

BTW, you may want to check out:
http://www.python.org/doc/current/li...e-htmllib.html

Or find some other parser:
http://www.google.com/search?q=python+html+parser

Hope this helps,
Aurélien

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