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Python Automation Cookbook

You're reading from Python Automation Cookbook Explore the world of automation using Python recipes that will enhance your skills

Product type Paperback

Published in Sep 2018

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781789133806

Length 398 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Python

Tools

Excel

Concepts

DevOps

Author (1):

Jaime Buelta

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Table of Contents (17) Chapters

Title Page

Dedication

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Contributors

Preface

1. Let Us Begin Our Automation Journey FREE CHAPTER

2. Automating Tasks Made Easy

3. Building Your First Web Scraping Application

4. Searching and Reading Local Files

5. Generating Fantastic Reports

6. Fun with Spreadsheets

7. Developing Stunning Graphs

8. Dealing with Communication Channels

9. Why Not Automate Your Marketing Campaign?

10. Debugging Techniques

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Index

Chapter 1. Let’s Begin Our Automation Journey

In this chapter, we'll cover the following recipes:

Creating a virtual environment
Installing third party packages
Creating strings with formatted values
Manipulating strings
Extracting data from structured strings
Using a third party tool: parse
Introducing regular expressions
Going deeper into regular expressions
Adding command line arguments

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Python Automation Cookbook

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Authors (1)

Jaime Buelta

Jaime Buelta

Jaime Buelta is a Software Architect who has been a professional programmer since 2002 and a Python enthusiast since 2010. He has developed software for a variety of fields, focusing, in the last 10 years, on developing web services in Python in the gaming, finance and education industries. He is a strong proponent of automating everything to make computers do most of the heavy lifting, so humans can focus on the important stuff. He published his first book, "Python Automation Cookbook", in 2018 (recently with an extended second edition), followed a year later by "Hands-On Docker for Microservices with Python" describing how to migrate to a microservice architecture. He is currently living in Dublin, Ireland, and is a regular speaker at PyCon Ireland.

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