Pywin32 --> COM -->Powerpoint tutorial?

Question

Does anyone know where I could find a good list of objects and methods (or a tutorial) for working with powerpoint 2010. I was able to locate this:

http://nbviewer.ipython.org/urls/raw.github.com/sanand0/ipython-notebooks/master/Office.ipynb

but was hoping to find something a little more in depth.

I've also the book "Python Programming on Win32" but this is not PPT specific.

Answer 1

The com32 module provides access to all the .com methods of PowerPoint so I would start with the MSDN PowerPoint 2010 API - one important trick is to create the python interfaces to the object libraries:

To do this in Python, run Python/Lib/site-packages/win32com/client/makepy.py and pick “Microsoft Office 12.0 Object Library” and “Microsoft PowerPoint 12.0 Object Library”. (If you have a version of Office other than 12.0, pick your version.) Found here

Then rename the resulting files something sensible.