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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

Creating a macro in LibreOffice

LibreOffice is a free productivity suite that's an alternative to MS Office and other office packages. It includes, among others, a text editor called writer and a spreadsheet program called Calc. Calc understands the regular Excel formats, and it's also totally scriptable internally through its UNO API. The UNO interface allows programmatic access to the suite, and it's accessible in different languages, such as Java.

One of these available languages is Python, making it very easy to generate very complex applications in a suite format, as this enables the use of the full Python standard library.

Using the full Python standard library provides access to elements such as cryptography, opening external files (including zip files), and connecting to remote databases. Also, you can take advantage of the Python syntax and avoid dealing with LibreOffice BASIC.

We'll see in this recipe how to add an external...