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Python Automation Cookbook

By : Jaime Buelta
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Python Automation Cookbook

By: Jaime Buelta

Overview of this book

Have you been doing the same old monotonous office work over and over again? Or have you been trying to find an easy way to make your life better by automating some of your repetitive tasks? Through a tried and tested approach, understand how to automate all the boring stuff using Python. The Python Automation Cookbook helps you develop a clear understanding of how to automate your business processes using Python, including detecting opportunities by scraping the web, analyzing information to generate automatic spreadsheets reports with graphs, and communicating with automatically generated emails. You’ll learn how to get notifications via text messages and run tasks while your mind is focused on other important activities, followed by understanding how to scan documents such as résumés. Once you’ve gotten familiar with the fundamentals, you’ll be introduced to the world of graphs, along with studying how to produce organized charts using Matplotlib. In addition to this, you’ll gain in-depth knowledge of how to generate rich graphics showing relevant information. By the end of this book, you’ll have refined your skills by attaining a sound understanding of how to identify and correct problems to produce superior and reliable systems.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)

Visualizing maps

To show information that changes from region to region, the best way is to display a map that presents the information, while at the same time giving a regional sense of position and location for the data.

In this recipe, we'll make use of the fiona module to import GIS information, as well as matplotlib to display the information. We will display a map of Western Europe and display the population of each country with a color grade. The darker the color, the larger the population.

Getting ready

We need to install matplotlib and fiona in our virtual environment:

$ echo "matplotlib==2.2.2" >> requirements.txt
$ echo "Fiona==1.7.13" >> requirements.txt
$ pip install -r requirements...