Automate the boring stuff with Python : practical programming for total beginners /

by Al Sweigart.
Bok · Engelsk · 2020 · Electronic books.

Omfang	1 online resource (xxi, 479 pages) : : illustrations
Utgave	Second edition.
Opplysninger	Includes index.. - Intro -- 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.. - 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 -- INDEX.. - 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.. - 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 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 to: •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 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 .
Emner	Python (Computer program language)
Sjanger	Electronic books.
Dewey	005.133
ISBN	1-0981-2258-5. - 1-59327-993-0