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Learn how to code while you write programs that effortlessly perform useful feats of automation!

 

The second edition of this international fan favorite includes a brand-new chapter on input validation, Gmail and Google Sheets automations, tips for updating CSV files, and more.

 

If you've ever spent hours renaming files or updating spreadsheet cells, you know how tedious tasks like these can be. But what if you could have your computer do them for you? Automate the Boring Stuff with Python, 2nd Edition teaches even the technically uninclined how to write programs that do in minutes what would take hours to do by hand—no prior coding experience required!

 

This new, fully revised edition of Al Sweigart’s bestselling Pythonic classic, Automate the Boring Stuff with Python, covers all the basics of Python 3 while exploring its rich library of modules for performing specific tasks, like scraping data off the Web, filling out forms, renaming files, organizing folders, sending email responses, and merging, splitting, or encrypting PDFs. There’s also a brand-new chapter on input validation, tutorials on automating Gmail and Google Sheets, tips on automatically updating CSV files, and other recent feats of automations that improve your efficiency.

 

Detailed, step-by-step instructions walk you through each program, allowing you to create useful tools as you build out your programming skills, 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. Boring tasks no longer have to take to get through—and neither does learning Python!

 

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

 

(Verlagstext)