Edit powerpoint .pptx template by python

Question

I am trying to automate report generating in PowerPoint by python. I wanted to know if there is any way to detect an existing textbox from a PowerPoint template and then fill it with some text in python?

Answer 1

Main logic is that how to find a placeholder which is given by template by default as well as text-box on non-template-pages. We can take different type to extract data and fill placeholder and text-box like From txt file, form web scraping and many more. Among them we have taken our data list_ object.

1. Lets we n page and we are accessing page 1 so we can access this page usng this code :

(pptx.Presentation(inout_pptx)).slides[0]

2. To select placeholder by default provided in template we will use this code and we will iterator over all placehodler

slide.shapes

3. To update particular placeholder use this :

shape.text_frame.text = data

CODE :

import pptx

inout_pptx = r"C:\\Users\\lenovo\\Desktop\\StackOverFlow\\python_pptx.pptx"
list_data = [
    'Quantam Computing dsfsf ', 
    'Welcome to Quantam Computing Tutorial, hope you will get new thing',
    'User_Name sd',
    '<Enrollment Number>']
"""open file"""
prs = pptx.Presentation(inout_pptx)
"""get to the required slide"""
slide = prs.slides[0]
"""Find required text box"""
for shape, data in zip(slide.shapes, list_data):
    if not shape.has_text_frame:
        continue
    shape.text_frame.text = data

"""save the file"""
prs.save(inout_pptx)

RESULTS :