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Automate the Boring Stuff with Python: Practical Programming for Total Beginners

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If you’ve ever spent hours renaming files or updating hundreds of spreadsheet cells, you understand how tedious tasks like these may also be. But what if it’s essential have your computer do them for you?

In Automate the Boring Stuff with Python, you’ll discover ways 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 more than one 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 and every program, and practice projects at the end of each and every chapter challenge you to enhance 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 supposing you’ve never written a line of code, you’ll be able to make your computer do the grunt work. Find out how in Automate the Boring Stuff with Python.

Note: The programs in this book are written to run on Python 3.

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