This release is a pre-release and may not be stable for production use.
VERSION: 0.1.0a1 (first Alpha)
STATUS (as of Feb 1 2013)
Initial alpha version with limited capabilities. Under active development, with new features added in a new release roughly every two weeks.
Documentation
Documentation is hosted on Read The Docs (readthedocs.org) at https://python-pptx.readthedocs.org/en/latest/. The documentation is being developed steadily alongside the code.
Installation
python-pptx depends on the lxml package and the Python Imaging Library (PIL).
python-pptx may be installed with pip if you have it available:
pip install python-pptx
It can also be installed using easy_install:
easy_install python-pptx
If neither pip nor easy_install is available, it can be installed manually by downloading the distribution from PyPI, unpacking the tarball, and running setup.py:
tar xvzf python-pptx-0.1.0a1.tar.gz cd python-pptx-0.1.0a1 python setup.py install
Vision
A robust, full-featured, and well-documented general-purpose library for manipulating Open XML PowerPoint files.
robust - High reliability driven by a full unit-test suite.
full-featured - Anything that the file format will allow can be accomplished via the API. (Note that visions often take some time to fulfill completely :).
well-documented - I don’t know about you, but I find it hard to remember what I was thinking yesterday if I don’t write it down. That’s not a problem for most of my thinking, but when it comes to how I set up an object hierarchy to interact, it can be a big time-waster. So I like it when things are nicely laid out in black-and-white. Other folks seem to like that too :).
general-purpose - Applicability to all conceivable purposes is valued over being especially well-suited to any particular purpose. Particular purposes can always be accomplished by building a wrapper library of your own. Serving general purposes from a particularized library is not so easy.
manipulate - Initially I expect this library to be primarily for purposes of writing .pptx files. But since we’re talking about vision here, I think it’s not to much to envision that it could be developed to also be able to read .pptx files and manipulate their contents. I could see that coming in handy for full-text indexing, removing speaker notes, changing out templates, that sort of thing.
License
Licensed under the MIT license. Short version: this code is copyrighted by me (Steve Canny), I give you permission to do what you want with it except remove my name from the credits. See the LICENSE file for specific terms.
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