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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

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789133806
Length 398 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Jaime Buelta Jaime Buelta
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Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

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 11. Other Books You May Enjoy

Creating a macro in LibreOffice

LibreOffice is a free office suite that's an alternative to MS Office and other office packages. It includes a text editor and a spreadsheet program called Calc. Calc understands the regular Excel formats, and it's also totally scriptable internally through its UNO API. The UNO interface allows programmatic access to the suite, and it's accessible in different languages, such as Java.

One of the available language is Python, making it very easy to generate very complex applications in a suite format, as this enables the use of the full Python standard library.

Using the full Python standard library give access to elements such as cryptography; opening external files, including ZIP files; or connecting to remote databases. Also, take advantage of the Python syntax and avoid dealing with LibreOffice BASIC.

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