[Python] python-pptx - How to access presentation section titles programmatically?

In Powerpoint, I'd like to create agenda / table of content slides, with section titles serving as input to these agenda slides. Sections allow one to structure a presentation document. They are particularly useful in the slide-sorter and outline mode. Conveniently leveraging section titles for the purpose of constructing an agenda slide is a feature of PowerPoint add-ons often found in consulting (Slideproof, Think-Cell,...). The goal is to change one section title, and have this change reflected on all agenda slides -- without having to touch each and every agenda slide.

Is there a way to access these section titles programmatically, ideally using python-pptx? So far I have tried reading the contents of a sample pptx file with unique section titles. Unfortunately, no success in finding the identical section titles in the pptx file when grepping through the file contents.

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