Automate the Boring Stuff with Python, 2nd Edition: Practical Programming for Total Beginners

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Automate the Boring Stuff with Python, 2nd Edition: Practical Programming for Total Beginners

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 this fully revised second edition of the best-selling classic 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. You'll learn the basics of Python and explore Python’s rich library of modules for performing specific tasks, like scraping data off websites, reading PDF and Word documents, and automating clicking and typing tasks.

The second edition of this international fan favorite includes a brand-new chapter on input validation, as well as tutorials on automating Gmail and Google Sheets, plus tips on automatically updating CSV files. You’ll learn how to create programs that effortlessly perform useful feats of automation.

Step-by-step instructions walk you through each program, and updated practice projects at the end of each chapter challenge you to improve those programs and use your newfound skills to automate similar tasks.

Don't spend your time doing work a well-trained monkey could do. Even if you've never written a line of code, you can make your computer do the grunt work. Learn how in Automate the Boring Stuff with Python, 2nd Edition.

Ages 13+

Learn how to automate things like...

  • 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 email responses and text notifications
  • Fill out online forms

Table of contents:

Acknowledgments

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: Input Validation

Chapter 9: Reading and Writing Files

Chapter 10: Organizing Files

Chapter 11: Debugging

Chapter 12: Web Scraping

Chapter 13: Working with Excel Spreadsheets

Chapter 14: Working with Google Sheets

Chapter 15: Working with PDF and Word Documents

Chapter 16: Working with CSV Files and JSON Data

Chapter 17: Keeping Time, Scheduling Tasks, and Launching Programs

Chapter 18: Sending Email and Text Messages

Chapter 19: Manipulating Images

Chapter 20: Controlling the Keyboard and Mouse with GUI Automation

Appendix A: Installing Third-Party Modules

Appendix B: Running Programs

Appendix C: Answers to the Practice Questions

Author: Al Sweigart

November 2019, 592 pp.

ISBN-13: 9781593279929

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