Automate the Boring Stuff with Python by Al Sweigart -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Page Title Page Copyright Page Dedication About the Author About the Technical Reviewer BRIEF CONTENTS CONTENTS IN DETAIL ACKNOWLEDGMENTS INTRODUCTION

Whom Is This Book For? Conventions What Is Programming? About This Book Downloading and Installing Python Downloading and Installing Mu Starting Mu Starting IDLE The Interactive Shell Installing Third-Party Modules How to Find Help Asking Smart Programming Questions Summary

PART I: PYTHON PROGRAMMING BASICS

1 PYTHON BASICS

Entering Expressions into the Interactive Shell The Integer, Floating-Point, and String Data Types String Concatenation and Replication Storing Values in Variables Your First Program Dissecting Your Program Summary Practice Questions

2 FLOW CONTROL

Boolean Values Comparison Operators Boolean Operators Mixing Boolean and Comparison Operators Elements of Flow Control Program Execution Flow Control Statements Importing Modules Ending a Program Early with the sys.exit() Function A Short Program: Guess the Number A Short Program: Rock, Paper, Scissors Summary Practice Questions

3 FUNCTIONS

def Statements with Parameters Return Values and return Statements The None Value Keyword Arguments and the print() Function The Call Stack Local and Global Scope The global Statement Exception Handling A Short Program: Zigzag Summary Practice Questions Practice Projects

4 LISTS

The List Data Type Working with Lists Augmented Assignment Operators Methods Example Program: Magic 8 Ball with a List Sequence Data Types References A Short Program: Conway’s Game of Life Summary Practice Questions Practice Projects

5 DICTIONARIES AND STRUCTURING DATA

The Dictionary Data Type Pretty Printing Using Data Structures to Model Real-World Things Summary Practice Questions Practice Projects

6 MANIPULATING STRINGS

Working with Strings Putting Strings Inside Other Strings Useful String Methods Numeric Values of Characters with the ord() and chr() Functions Copying and Pasting Strings with the pyperclip Module Project: Multi-Clipboard Automatic Messages Project: Adding Bullets to Wiki Markup A Short Progam: Pig Latin Summary Practice Questions Practice Projects

PART II: AUTOMATING TASKS

7 PATTERN MATCHING WITH REGULAR EXPRESSIONS

Finding Patterns of Text Without Regular Expressions Finding Patterns of Text with Regular Expressions More Pattern Matching with Regular Expressions Greedy and Non-greedy Matching The findall() Method Character Classes Making Your Own Character Classes The Caret and Dollar Sign Characters The Wildcard Character Review of Regex Symbols Case-Insensitive Matching Substituting Strings with the sub() Method Managing Complex Regexes Combining re.IGNORECASE, re.DOTALL, and re.VERBOSE Project: Phone Number and Email Address Extractor Summary Practice Questions Practice Projects

8 INPUT VALIDATION

The PyInputPlus Module Project: How to Keep an Idiot Busy for Hours Project: Multiplication Quiz Summary Practice Questions Practice Projects

9 READING AND WRITING FILES

Files and File Paths The File Reading/Writing Process Saving Variables with the shelve Module Saving Variables with the pprint.pformat() Function Project: Generating Random Quiz Files Project: Updatable Multi-Clipboard Summary Practice Questions Practice Projects

10 ORGANIZING FILES

The shutil Module Walking a Directory Tree Compressing Files with the zipfile Module Project: Renaming Files with American-Style Dates to European-Style Dates Project: Backing Up a Folder into a ZIP File Summary Practice Questions Practice Projects

11 DEBUGGING

Raising Exceptions Getting the Traceback as a String Assertions Logging Mu’s Debugger Summary Practice Questions Practice Project

12 WEB SCRAPING

Project: mapIt.py with the webbrowser Module Downloading Files from the Web with the requests Module Saving Downloaded Files to the Hard Drive HTML Parsing HTML with the bs4 Module Project: Opening All Search Results Project: Downloading All XKCD Comics Controlling the Browser with the selenium Module Summary Practice Questions Practice Projects

13 WORKING WITH EXCEL SPREADSHEETS

Excel Documents Installing the openpyxl Module Reading Excel Documents Project: Reading Data from a Spreadsheet Writing Excel Documents Project: Updating a Spreadsheet Setting the Font Style of Cells Font Objects Formulas Adjusting Rows and Columns Charts Summary Practice Questions Practice Projects

14 WORKING WITH GOOGLE SHEETS

Installing and Setting Up EZSheets Spreadsheet Objects Sheet Objects Working with Google Sheets Quotas Summary Practice Questions Practice Projects

15 WORKING WITH PDF AND WORD DOCUMENTS

PDF Documents Project: Combining Select Pages from Many PDFs Word Documents Creating PDFs from Word Documents Summary Practice Questions Practice Projects

16 WORKING WITH CSV FILES AND JSON DATA

The csv Module Project: Removing the Header from CSV Files JSON and APIs The json Module Project: Fetching Current Weather Data Summary Practice Questions Practice Project

17 KEEPING TIME, SCHEDULING TASKS, AND LAUNCHING PROGRAMS

The time Module Rounding Numbers Project: Super Stopwatch The datetime Module Review of Python’s Time Functions Multithreading Project: Multithreaded XKCD Downloader Launching Other Programs from Python Project: Simple Countdown Program Summary Practice Questions Practice Projects

18 SENDING EMAIL AND TEXT MESSAGES

Sending and Receiving Email with the Gmail API SMTP Sending Email IMAP Retrieving and Deleting Emails with IMAP Project: Sending Member Dues Reminder Emails Sending Text Messages with SMS Email Gateways Sending Text Messages with Twilio Project: “Just Text Me” Module Summary Practice Questions Practice Projects

19 MANIPULATING IMAGES

Computer Image Fundamentals Manipulating Images with Pillow Project: Adding a Logo Drawing on Images Summary Practice Questions Practice Projects

20 CONTROLLING THE KEYBOARD AND MOUSE WITH GUI AUTOMATION

Installing the pyautogui Module Setting Up Accessibility Apps on macOS Staying on Track Controlling Mouse Movement Controlling Mouse Interaction Planning Your Mouse Movements Working with the Screen Image Recognition Getting Window Information Controlling the Keyboard Setting Up Your GUI Automation Scripts Review of the PyAutoGUI Functions Project: Automatic Form Filler Displaying Message Boxes Summary Practice Questions Practice Projects

A INSTALLING THIRD-PARTY MODULES

The pip Tool Installing Third-Party Modules Installing Modules for the Mu Editor

B RUNNING PROGRAMS

Running Programs from the Terminal Window Running Python Programs on Windows Running Python Programs on macOS Running Python Programs on Ubuntu Linux Running Python Programs with Assertions Disabled

C ANSWERS TO THE PRACTICE QUESTIONS

Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Chapter 9 Chapter 10 Chapter 11 Chapter 12 Chapter 13 Chapter 14 Chapter 15 Chapter 16 Chapter 17 Chapter 18 Chapter 19 Chapter 20

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