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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)

Introduction

Dealing with communication channels is where automating things can produce big gains. In this recipe, we'll see how to work with two of the most common communication channels—emails, including newsletters, as well as sending and receiving text messages by phone.

During the years, there has been a fair amount of abuse in methods of delivery, like spam or unsolicited marketing messages, making necessary to partner with external tools to avoid messages to be automatically rejected by automated filters. We will present the proper caveats where applicable. All the tools presented have excellent documentation, so do not be afraid to read it. They also have a lot of features, and they may be able to do something that is exactly what you're looking for.