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Learn how to code while you write programs that effortlessly perform useful feats of automation!

The second edition of this international fan favorite includes a brand-new chapter on input validation, Gmail and Google Sheets automations, tips for updating CSV files, and more.

If you’ve ever spent hours renaming files or updating spreadsheet cells, you know how tedious tasks like these can be. But what if you could have your computer do them for you? Automate the Boring Stuff with Python, 2nd Edition teaches even the technically uninclined how to write programs that do in minutes what would take hours to do by hand—no prior coding experience required!

This new, fully revised edition of Al Sweigart’s bestselling Pythonic classic, Automate the Boring Stuff with Python, covers all the basics of Python 3 while exploring its rich library of modules for performing specific tasks, like scraping data off the Web, filling out forms, renaming files, organizing folders, sending email responses, and merging, splitting, or encrypting PDFs. There’s also a brand-new chapter on input validation, tutorials on automating Gmail and Google Sheets, tips on automatically updating CSV files, and other recent feats of automations that improve your efficiency.

Detailed, step-by-step instructions walk you through each program, allowing you to create useful tools as you build out your programming skills, and updated practice projects at the end of each chapter challenge you to improve those programs and use your newfound skills to automate similar tasks. Boring tasks no longer have to take to get through—and neither does learning Python!

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User experience level
Beginner Beginner Beginner Beginners with prior programming experience Intermediate Intermediate

For readers who want
A gentle, kid-friendly introduction to Python A fast-paced, thorough introduction to Python A practical guide to using Python for automating tedious tasks A thorough introduction to Python for existing programmers Bridges the gap between novice and professional Learn how to write powerful, efficient, and re-usable code.

Compatible with Python version
Python 3 Python 3 Python 3 Python 3 Python 3.6 and higher Python 3

Special features
Kid-friendly, full-color code and illustrations Covers Django, matplotlib and plotly, and pygame Covers working with files en masse, automating emails and texts, scraping the web, and more Covers syntax basics, functions, parallelism and debugging Covers decorators, generators, context managers, testing, and web development Covers modeling, pygame, inheritance, polymorphism, abstraction, and encapsulation

Page count
368 pages 552 pages 592 pages 752 pages 384 pages 416 pages

Publisher ‏ : ‎ No Starch Press; 2nd edition (November 12, 2019)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 592 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1593279922
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1593279929
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.31 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7 x 1.04 x 9.25 inches