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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

Improving your debugging skills

In this recipe, we will analyze a small script that replicates a call to an external service, analyzing it and fixing some bugs. We will show different techniques to improve the debugging.

The script will ping some personal names to an internet server (httpbin.org, a test site) to get them back, simulating its retrieval from an external server. It will then split them into first and last name and prepare them to be sorted by surname. Finally, it will sort them.

The script contains several bugs that we will detect and fix.

Getting ready

For this recipe, we will use the requests and parse modules and include them in our virtual environment:

$ echo "requests==2.18.3" >> requirements...
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