Automate the Boring Stuff with Python Practical Programming for Total Beginners 1st Edition by Al Sweigart ISBN 9781593279936 1593279930

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ISBN 10: 1593279930
ISBN 13: 9781593279936
Author: Al Sweigart

Automate the Boring Stuff with Python Practical Programming for Total Beginners 1st Edition Table of contents:

PART I: PYTHON PROGRAMMING BASICS

1 PYTHON BASICS

Entering Expressions into the Interactive Shell

The Integer, Floating-Point, and String Data Types

String Concatenation and Replication

Storing Values in Variables

Your First Program

Dissecting Your Program

Summary

Practice Questions

2 FLOW CONTROL

Boolean Values

Comparison Operators

Boolean Operators

Mixing Boolean and Comparison Operators

Elements of Flow Control

Program Execution

Flow Control Statements

Importing Modules

Ending a Program Early with the sys.exit() Function

A Short Program: Guess the Number

A Short Program: Rock, Paper, Scissors

Summary

Practice Questions

3 FUNCTIONS

def Statements with Parameters

Return Values and return Statements

The None Value

Keyword Arguments and the print() Function

The Call Stack

Local and Global Scope

The global Statement

Exception Handling

A Short Program: Zigzag

Summary

Practice Questions

Practice Projects

4 LISTS

The List Data Type

Working with Lists

Augmented Assignment Operators

Methods

Example Program: Magic 8 Ball with a List

Sequence Data Types

References

A Short Program: Conway’s Game of Life

Summary

Practice Questions

Practice Projects

5 DICTIONARIES AND STRUCTURING DATA

The Dictionary Data Type

Pretty Printing

Using Data Structures to Model Real-World Things

Summary

Practice Questions

Practice Projects

6 MANIPULATING STRINGS

Working with Strings

Putting Strings Inside Other Strings

Useful String Methods

Numeric Values of Characters with the ord() and chr() Functions

Copying and Pasting Strings with the pyperclip Module

Project: Multi-Clipboard Automatic Messages

Project: Adding Bullets to Wiki Markup

A Short Progam: Pig Latin

Summary

Practice Questions

Practice Projects

PART II: AUTOMATING TASKS

7 PATTERN MATCHING WITH REGULAR EXPRESSIONS

Finding Patterns of Text Without Regular Expressions

Finding Patterns of Text with Regular Expressions

More Pattern Matching with Regular Expressions

Greedy and Non-greedy Matching

The findall() Method

Character Classes

Making Your Own Character Classes

The Caret and Dollar Sign Characters

The Wildcard Character

Review of Regex Symbols

Case-Insensitive Matching

Substituting Strings with the sub() Method

Managing Complex Regexes

Combining re.IGNORECASE, re.DOTALL, and re.VERBOSE

Project: Phone Number and Email Address Extractor

Summary

Practice Questions

Practice Projects

8 INPUT VALIDATION

The PyInputPlus Module

Project: How to Keep an Idiot Busy for Hours

Project: Multiplication Quiz

Summary

Practice Questions

Practice Projects

9 READING AND WRITING FILES

Files and File Paths

The File Reading/Writing Process

Saving Variables with the shelve Module

Saving Variables with the pprint.pformat() Function

Project: Generating Random Quiz Files

Project: Updatable Multi-Clipboard

Summary

Practice Questions

Practice Projects

10 ORGANIZING FILES

The shutil Module

Walking a Directory Tree

Compressing Files with the zipfile Module

Project: Renaming Files with American-Style Dates to European-Style Dates

Project: Backing Up a Folder into a ZIP File

Summary

Practice Questions

Practice Projects

11 DEBUGGING

Raising Exceptions

Getting the Traceback as a String

Assertions

Logging

Mu’s Debugger

Summary

Practice Questions

Practice Project

12 WEB SCRAPING

Project: mapIt.py with the webbrowser Module

Downloading Files from the Web with the requests Module

Saving Downloaded Files to the Hard Drive

HTML

Parsing HTML with the bs4 Module

Project: Opening All Search Results

Project: Downloading All XKCD Comics

Controlling the Browser with the selenium Module

Summary

Practice Questions

Practice Projects

13 WORKING WITH EXCEL SPREADSHEETS

Excel Documents

Installing the openpyxl Module

Reading Excel Documents

Project: Reading Data from a Spreadsheet

Writing Excel Documents

Project: Updating a Spreadsheet

Setting the Font Style of Cells

Font Objects

Formulas

Adjusting Rows and Columns

Charts

Summary

Practice Questions

Practice Projects

14 WORKING WITH GOOGLE SHEETS

Installing and Setting Up EZSheets

Spreadsheet Objects

Sheet Objects

Working with Google Sheets Quotas

Summary

Practice Questions

Practice Projects

15 WORKING WITH PDF AND WORD DOCUMENTS

PDF Documents

Project: Combining Select Pages from Many PDFs

Word Documents

Creating PDFs from Word Documents

Summary

Practice Questions

Practice Projects

16 WORKING WITH CSV FILES AND JSON DATA

The csv Module

Project: Removing the Header from CSV Files

JSON and APIs

The json Module

Project: Fetching Current Weather Data

Summary

Practice Questions

Practice Project

17 KEEPING TIME, SCHEDULING TASKS, AND LAUNCHING PROGRAMS

The time Module

Rounding Numbers

Project: Super Stopwatch

The datetime Module

Review of Python’s Time Functions

Multithreading

Project: Multithreaded XKCD Downloader

Launching Other Programs from Python

Project: Simple Countdown Program

Summary

Practice Questions

Practice Projects

18 SENDING EMAIL AND TEXT MESSAGES

Sending and Receiving Email with the Gmail API

SMTP

Sending Email

IMAP

Retrieving and Deleting Emails with IMAP

Project: Sending Member Dues Reminder Emails

Sending Text Messages with SMS Email Gateways

Sending Text Messages with Twilio

Project: “Just Text Me” Module

Summary

Practice Questions

Practice Projects

19 MANIPULATING IMAGES

Computer Image Fundamentals

Manipulating Images with Pillow

Project: Adding a Logo

Drawing on Images

Summary

Practice Questions

Practice Projects

20 CONTROLLING THE KEYBOARD AND MOUSE WITH GUI AUTOMATION

Installing the pyautogui Module

Setting Up Accessibility Apps on macOS

Staying on Track

Controlling Mouse Movement

Controlling Mouse Interaction

Planning Your Mouse Movements

Working with the Screen

Image Recognition

Getting Window Information

Controlling the Keyboard

Setting Up Your GUI Automation Scripts

Review of the PyAutoGUI Functions

Project: Automatic Form Filler

Displaying Message Boxes

Summary

Practice Questions

Practice Projects

A INSTALLING THIRD-PARTY MODULES

The pip Tool

Installing Third-Party Modules

Installing Modules for the Mu Editor

B RUNNING PROGRAMS

Running Programs from the Terminal Window

Running Python Programs on Windows

Running Python Programs on macOS

Running Python Programs on Ubuntu Linux

Running Python Programs with Assertions Disabled

C ANSWERS TO THE PRACTICE QUESTIONS

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