manipulating PowerPoint with Python?

[Greg Wilson]

Hi.  Has anyone ever written scripts to extract data from PowerPoint using
Python?  I know I could dredge through the VB examples in MSDN, and
translate, but if someone's already done this, I'd be grateful for a few
examples.  (I have slides done in PPT that I want to convert to simple
HTML --- using "Save as HTML" in PPT creates a lot more goo than I want to
have to wade through.)

Thanks,
Greg