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Python Automation Cookbook - Second Edition

By : Jaime Buelta
Book Image

Python Automation Cookbook - Second Edition

By: Jaime Buelta

Overview of this book

In this updated and extended version of Python Automation Cookbook, each chapter now comprises the newest recipes and is revised to align with Python 3.8 and higher. The book includes three new chapters that focus on using Python for test automation, machine learning projects, and for working with messy data. This edition will enable you to develop a sharp understanding of the fundamentals required to automate business processes through real-world tasks, such as developing your first web scraping application, analyzing information to generate spreadsheet reports with graphs, and communicating with automatically generated emails. Once you grasp the basics, you will acquire the practical knowledge to create stunning graphs and charts using Matplotlib, generate rich graphics with relevant information, automate marketing campaigns, build machine learning projects, and execute debugging techniques. By the end of this book, you will be proficient in identifying monotonous tasks and resolving process inefficiencies to produce superior and reliable systems.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
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Index

Generating a sales report

In this chapter, we are presenting a marketing campaign divided into several tasks:

  1. Detect the best moment to launch the campaign
  2. Generate individual codes to be sent to potential customers
  3. Send the codes directly to users over their preferred channel, text message or email
  4. Collect the results of the campaign
  5. Generate a sales report with an analysis of the results

This recipe shows task 5 of the campaign.

As the final step, all the information about each of the sales is aggregated and displayed in a sales report.

In this recipe, we'll see how to read from spreadsheets, create PDFs, and produce graphs to generate a comprehensive report automatically in order to analyze the performance of our campaign.

Getting ready

In this recipe, we'll require the following modules in our virtual environment:

$ echo "openpyxl==3.0.3" >> requirements.txt
$ echo "fpdf==1.7.2&quot...