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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

Dealing with Communication Channels

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

During the years, there has been a fair amount of abuse in both channels, like spam or unsolicited marketing messages, making it necessary for senders to use external tools to avoid messages being rejected by automated filters. We will present the proper caveats where applicable. The presented tools have a lot of features that will help you with your specific task. They also have excellent documentation, so do not be afraid to read it.

In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:

  • Working with email templates
  • Sending an individual email
  • Reading an email
  • Adding subscribers to an email newsletter
  • Sending notifications via email
  • ...