Base (Private) Module: parsers/_pptxbaseparser.py

Purpose:

This module provides generalised base functionality for parsing PPTX documents.

Platform:

Linux/Windows | Python 3.10+

Developer:

J Berendt

Email:

development@s3dev.uk

Attention

This module is not designed to be interacted with directly, only via the appropriate interface class(es).

Rather, please create an instance of a PPTX document parsing object using the following:

• PPTXParser

class _PPTXBaseParser(path: str)

Bases: object

Base class containing generalised PPTX parsing functionality.

property doc: DocPPTX

Accessor to the document object.

_open() → None

Open the PPTX document for reading.

Before opening the file, a test is performed to ensure the PPTX is valid. The file must:

• exist

• be a ZIP archive, per the file signature

• have a .pptx file extension

Other Operations:

• Store the pptx.Presentation parser object returned from the pptx.Presentation() instance creation into the self._doc._parser attribute.

• Store the number of pages into the self._doc._npages attribute.

• Store the document’s meta data into the self._doc._meta attribute.

Raises:

• TypeError – Raised if the file type criteria above are not

• met. –

_set_paths() → None

Set the document’s file path attributes.