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python-pptx 1.0.2

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Released: Aug 7, 2024

Create, read, and update PowerPoint 2007+ (.pptx) files.

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• License: MIT License (MIT)
• Author: Steve Canny
• Tags powerpoint, ppt, pptx, openxml, office
• Requires: Python >=3.8

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• Python :: 3.12
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python-pptx is a Python library for creating, reading, and updating PowerPoint (.pptx) files.

A typical use would be generating a PowerPoint presentation from dynamic content such as a database query, analytics output, or a JSON payload, perhaps in response to an HTTP request and downloading the generated PPTX file in response. It runs on any Python capable platform, including macOS and Linux, and does not require the PowerPoint application to be installed or licensed.

It can also be used to analyze PowerPoint files from a corpus, perhaps to extract search indexing text and images.

In can also be used to simply automate the production of a slide or two that would be tedious to get right by hand, which is how this all got started.

More information is available in the python-pptx documentation .

Browse examples with screenshots to get a quick idea what you can do with python-pptx.

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Presentations ¶

A presentation is opened using the Presentation() function, provided directly by the pptx package:

This function returns a Presentation object which is the root of a graph containing the components that constitute a presentation, e.g. slides, shapes, etc. All existing presentation components are referenced by traversing the graph and new objects are added to the graph by calling a method on that object’s container. Consequently, python-pptx objects are generally not constructed directly.

Presentation function ¶

This function is the only reference that must be imported to work with presentation files. Typical use interacts with many other classes, but there is no need to construct them as they are accessed using a property or method of their containing object.

Return a Presentation object loaded from pptx , where pptx can be either a path to a .pptx file (a string) or a file-like object. If pptx is missing or None , the built-in default presentation “template” is loaded.

Presentation objects ¶

PresentationML (PML) presentation.

Not intended to be constructed directly. Use pptx.Presentation() to open or create a presentation.

Instance of CoreProperties holding the read/write Dublin Core document properties for this presentation.

Instance of NotesMaster for this presentation. If the presentation does not have a notes master, one is created from a default template and returned. The same single instance is returned on each call.

Save this presentation to file , where file can be either a path to a file (a string) or a file-like object.

Height of slides in this presentation, in English Metric Units (EMU). Returns None if no slide width is defined. Read/write.

Sequence of SlideLayout instances belonging to the first SlideMaster of this presentation. A presentation can have more than one slide master and each master will have its own set of layouts. This property is a convenience for the common case where the presentation has only a single slide master.

First SlideMaster object belonging to this presentation. Typically, presentations have only a single slide master. This property provides simpler access in that common case.

Sequence of SlideMaster objects belonging to this presentation

Width of slides in this presentation, in English Metric Units (EMU). Returns None if no slide width is defined. Read/write.

Slides object containing the slides in this presentation.

CoreProperties objects ¶

Each Presentation object has a CoreProperties object accessed via its core_properties attribute that provides read/write access to the so-called core properties for the document. The core properties are author, category, comments, content_status, created, identifier, keywords, language, last_modified_by, last_printed, modified, revision, subject, title, and version.

Each property is one of three types, str , datetime.datetime , or int . String properties are limited in length to 255 characters and return an empty string (‘’) if not set. Date properties are assigned and returned as datetime.datetime objects without timezone, i.e. in UTC. Any timezone conversions are the responsibility of the client. Date properties return None if not set.

python-pptx does not automatically set any of the document core properties other than to add a core properties part to a presentation that doesn’t have one (very uncommon). If python-pptx adds a core properties part, it contains default values for the title, last_modified_by, revision, and modified properties. Client code should change properties like revision and last_modified_by explicitly if that behavior is desired.

string – An entity primarily responsible for making the content of the resource.

string – A categorization of the content of this package. Example values might include: Resume, Letter, Financial Forecast, Proposal, or Technical Presentation.

string – An account of the content of the resource.

string – completion status of the document, e.g. ‘draft’

datetime – time of intial creation of the document

string – An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context, e.g. ISBN.

string – descriptive words or short phrases likely to be used as search terms for this document

string – language the document is written in

string – name or other identifier (such as email address) of person who last modified the document

datetime – time the document was last printed

datetime – time the document was last modified

int – number of this revision, incremented by the PowerPoint® client once each time the document is saved. Note however that the revision number is not automatically incremented by python-pptx .

string – The topic of the content of the resource.

string – The name given to the resource.

string – free-form version string

Table of Contents

• Presentation()
• Presentation.core_properties
• Presentation.notes_master
• Presentation.save()
• Presentation.slide_height
• Presentation.slide_layouts
• Presentation.slide_master
• Presentation.slide_masters
• Presentation.slide_width
• Presentation.slides
• pptx.opc.coreprops.CoreProperties.author
• pptx.opc.coreprops.CoreProperties.category
• pptx.opc.coreprops.CoreProperties.comments
• pptx.opc.coreprops.CoreProperties.content_status
• pptx.opc.coreprops.CoreProperties.created
• pptx.opc.coreprops.CoreProperties.identifier
• pptx.opc.coreprops.CoreProperties.keywords
• pptx.opc.coreprops.CoreProperties.language
• pptx.opc.coreprops.CoreProperties.last_modified_by
• pptx.opc.coreprops.CoreProperties.last_printed
• pptx.opc.coreprops.CoreProperties.modified
• pptx.opc.coreprops.CoreProperties.revision
• pptx.opc.coreprops.CoreProperties.subject
• pptx.opc.coreprops.CoreProperties.title
• pptx.opc.coreprops.CoreProperties.version

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Creating and updating PowerPoint Presentations in Python using python – pptx

python-pptx is library used to create/edit a PowerPoint (.pptx) files. This won’t work on MS office 2003 and previous versions.  We can add shapes, paragraphs, texts and slides and much more thing using this library.

Installation: Open the command prompt on your system and write given below command:

Let’s see some of its usage:

Example 1: Creating new PowerPoint file with title and subtitle slide.

Example 2: Adding Text-Box in PowerPoint.

Example 3: PowerPoint (.pptx) file to Text (.txt) file conversion.

Example 4: Inserting image into the PowerPoint file.

Example 5: Adding Charts to the PowerPoint file.

Example 6: Adding tables to the PowerPoint file.

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Does anyone know a fix to "pptx.exc.PackageNotFoundError:" when running an exe file built out of a python script with Presentation() object?

I wrote a python script that collects images and places them one slide at a time in a PowerPoint presentation. This script works fine when it is run using ".py" file. I then built an exe file using this python script. When running that ".exe" file, it always gives me an error at the line where Presentation() object is called. The error is captured in the image below: Error that is encountered when running an exe file that was built using pyinstaller

The python script that I am testing is as simple as follows:

The command I used to build exe file out of this script was:

Please help me if you have any solution to this problem. Thank you!

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• Maybe the exe version can't find the base presentation (shipped with python-pptx). –  Martin Packer Commented Jul 10, 2022 at 7:33
• I am not sure how to solve that if it can be solved, could you please help? –  Aniket Sedhai Commented Jul 10, 2022 at 13:39
• I just decided to have a default.pptx file next to the exe file and use it as the template. –  Aniket Sedhai Commented Jul 10, 2022 at 14:49
• What happens if you pass in explicitly a presentation you already have? The compiled version might well find it. Then you'd know if it was a case of not finding the built-in one. –  Martin Packer Commented Jul 11, 2022 at 6:56
• 1 @MartinPacker That is what I ended up doing. The package somehow isn’t able to find/use the built in template pptx file. So, I gave it a new “default.pptx” which the package was able to use. Thanks for your help! –  Aniket Sedhai Commented Jul 12, 2022 at 10:54

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Exceptions ¶

Exceptions used with python-pptx.

The base exception class is PythonPptxError.

Generic error class.

Raised when a package cannot be found at the specified path.

Raised when a value is encountered in the XML that is not valid according to the schema.

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