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Python Automation Cookbook

You're reading from   Python Automation Cookbook 75 Python automation recipes for web scraping; data wrangling; and Excel, report, and email processing

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800207080
Length 526 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Jaime Buelta Jaime Buelta
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Let's Begin Our Automation Journey 2. Automating Tasks Made Easy FREE CHAPTER 3. Building Your First Web Scraping Application 4. Searching and Reading Local Files 5. Generating Fantastic Reports 6. Fun with Spreadsheets 7. Cleaning and Processing Data 8. Developing Stunning Graphs 9. Dealing with Communication Channels 10. Why Not Automate Your Marketing Campaign? 11. Machine Learning for Automation 12. Automatic Testing Routines 13. Debugging Techniques 14. Other Books You May Enjoy
15. Index

Appending currency based on location

The resulting CSV file from the previous recipe doesn't contain currency information, even though the location can indicate different places with different currencies. In this recipe, we will process a CSV file to add extra information: the currency the prices are in, and a conversion into US dollars.

Getting ready

We will use the resulting CSV file from the previous recipe that receives and transforms logs to the following format:

[<Timestamp>] - SALE - PRODUCT: <product id> - PRICE: <price>

Each line will represent a sale log.

We will use the parse module. We should install the module, adding it to our requirements.txt file as follows:

$ echo "parse==1.14.0" >> requirements.txt
$ pip install -r requirements.txt

In the GitHub repository, there are some log files to process with the following structure:

sale_logs/
  OH
    logs.txt
  ON
    logs.txt

The code can be found...

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