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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

Scanning documents for a keyword

In this recipe, we will apply all the lessons from the previous recipes and search all the files in the directory for a particular keyword. This is a recap of the rest of the recipes in this chapter and includes a script that searches different kinds of files.

Getting ready

Be sure to include the following modules in the requirements.txt file and install them into your virtual environment:

beautifulsoup4==4.8.2
Pillow==7.0.0
PyPDF2==1.26.0
python-docx==0.8.10

Check that the directory to search has the following files (all are available in https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Python-Automation-Cookbook-Second-Edition/tree/master/Chapter04/documents/. Note that file5.pdf and file6.pdf are copies of document-1.pdf, for simplicity. file1.txt to file4.txt are empty files:

├── dir
│   ├── file1.txt
│   ├── file2.txt
│   ├── file6.pdf...