Automate the boring stuff with Python : practical programming for total beginners
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Automate the boring stuff with Python : practical programming for total beginners
No Starch Press, c2015
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If you ve ever spent hours renaming files or updating hundreds of spreadsheet cells, you know how tedious tasks like these can be. But what if you could have your computer do them for you? In Automate the Boring Stuff with Python, you ll learn how to use Python to write programs that do in minutes what would take you hours to do by hand no prior programming experience required. Once you ve mastered the basics of programming, you ll create Python programs that effortlessly perform useful and impressive feats of automation to: Search for text in a file or across multiple files Create, update, move, and rename files and folders Search the Web and download online content Update and format data in Excel spreadsheets of any size Split, merge, watermark, and encrypt PDFs Send reminder emails and text notifications Fill out online forms Step-by-step instructions walk you through each program, and practice projects at the end of each chapter challenge you to improve those programs and u
Table of Contents
Introduction
Part I: Python Programming Basics
Chapter 1: Python Basics
Chapter 2: Flow Control
Chapter 3: Functions
Chapter 4: Lists
Chapter 5: Dictionaries and Structuring Data
Chapter 6: Manipulating Strings
Part II: Automating Tasks
Chapter 7: Pattern Matching with Regular Expressions
Chapter 8: Reading and Writing Files
Chapter 9: Organizing Files
Chapter 10: Debugging
Chapter 11: Web Scraping
Chapter 12: Working with Excel Spreadsheets
Chapter 13: Working with PDF and Word Documents
Chapter 14: Working with CSV Files and JSON Data
Chapter 15: Keeping Time, Scheduling Tasks, and Launching Programs
Chapter 16: Sending Email and Text Messages
Chapter 17: Manipulating Images
Chapter 18: Controlling the Keyboard and Mouse with GUI Animation
A: Installing Third-Party Modules
B: Running Programs
C: Answers to the Practice Questions
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