Python Automation Cookbook by Buelta, Jaime -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Python Automation Cookbook

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Introduction Creating a virtual environment

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Installing third-party packages

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Creating strings with formatted values

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Manipulating strings

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Extracting data from structured strings

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Using a third-party tool—parse

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Introducing regular expressions

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Going deeper into regular expressions

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Adding command-line arguments

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Automating Tasks Made Easy

Introduction Preparing a task

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Setting up a cron job

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Capturing errors and problems

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Sending email notifications

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Building Your First Web Scraping Application

Introduction Downloading web pages

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Parsing HTML

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Crawling the web

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Subscribing to feeds

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Accessing web APIs

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Interacting with forms

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Using Selenium for advanced interaction

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Accessing password-protected pages

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Speeding up web scraping

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Searching and Reading Local Files

Introduction Crawling and searching directories

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Reading text files

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Dealing with encodings

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Reading CSV files

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Reading log files

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Reading file metadata

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Reading images

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Reading PDF files

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Reading Word documents

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Scanning documents for a keyword

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Generating Fantastic Reports

Introduction Creating a simple report in plain text

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Using templates for reports

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Formatting text in Markdown

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Writing a basic Word document

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Styling a Word document

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Generating structure in Word documents

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Adding pictures to Word documents

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Writing a simple PDF document

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Structuring a PDF

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Aggregating PDF reports

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Watermarking and encrypting a PDF

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Fun with Spreadsheets

Introduction Writing a CSV spreadsheet

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Updating the CSV files

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Reading an Excel spreadsheet

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Updating an Excel spreadsheet

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Creating new sheets on an Excel spreadsheet

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Creating charts in Excel

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Working with format in Excel

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Creating a macro in LibreOffice

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Developing Stunning Graphs

Introduction Plotting a simple sales graph

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Drawing stacked bars

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Plotting pie charts

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Displaying multiple lines

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Drawing a scatter plot

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Visualizing maps

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Adding legends and annotations

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Combining graphs

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Saving charts

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Dealing with Communication Channels

Introduction Working with email templates

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Sending an individual email

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Reading an email

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Adding subscribers to an email newsletter

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Sending notifications via email

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Producing SMS

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Receiving SMS

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Creating a Telegram bot

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Why Not Automate Your Marketing Campaign?

Introduction Detecting the opportunities

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Creating personalized coupon codes

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Sending a notification to the customer on their preferred channel

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Preparing sales information

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Generating a sales report

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Debugging Techniques

Introduction Learning Python interpreter basics

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Debugging through logging

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Debugging with breakpoints

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Improving your debugging skills

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