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!
