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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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Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789133806
Length 398 pages
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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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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

Let Us 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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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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