Rearrange powerpoint slides automatically using python-pptx
Would it be feasible - if all we're doing is reordering - to read the XML and rewrite it with the slide elements permuted?
Further - for the "delete" case - is it feasible to simply delete a slide element in the XML? (I realise this could leave dangling objects such as images in the file.)
The process of extracting the XML and rewriting it to a copy of the file is probably not too onerous.
We typically use powerpoint to facilitate our experiments. We use "sections" in powerpoint to keep groups of slides together for each experimental task. Moving the sections to counterbalance the task order of the experiment has been a lot of work! 
I thought we might be able to predefine a counterbalance order (using a string of numbers representing the order of the sections) in a CSV which could be read from python. Then using python-pptx move the sections and save the file for each order. The problem I am having is understanding how to read sections from the python-pptx. If anyone has a better solution than python please let me know. 
Thanks for your help!