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Automate integral business processes such as report generation, email marketing, and lead generation

Explore automated code testing and Python’s growth in data science and AI automation in three new chapters

Understand techniques to extract information and generate appealing graphs, and reports with Matplotlib

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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.

What you will learn

Learn data wrangling with Python and Pandas for your data science and AI projects

Automate tasks such as text classification, email filtering, and web scraping with Python

Use Matplotlib to generate a variety of stunning graphs, charts, and maps

Automate a range of report generation tasks, from sending SMS and email campaigns to creating templates, adding images in Word, and even encrypting PDFs

Master web scraping and web crawling of popular file formats and directories with tools like Beautiful Soup

Build cool projects such as a Telegram bot for your marketing campaign, a reader from a news RSS feed, and a machine learning model to classify emails to the correct department based on their content

Create fire-and-forget automation tasks by writing cron jobs, log files, and regexes with Python scripting

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siebo Jun 11, 2020

This book shows how Python can be applied to many common workflows. It covers tasks like file manipulation, text processing, structured data, graphing and reporting, and marketing automation. The code examples are written in modern, well-structured Python code. Reading the book sequentially gives you a tour of some of the things can do with Python. It helps you recognize opportunities to automate your work, using the language, and helps build up your abilities to confidently use Python this way. It can also be used as a Cookbook, where you refer to specific chapters when working with particular use cases. I think this book is approachable even for people who are new to Python. I'd also recommend it to developers who already work with Python, for example with a web framework, and want to expand their knowledge into using the language to automate their daily workflows.

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Steven Klassen Jun 12, 2020

Disclaimer: I was offered a review copy by the publisher to write an honest review.I skimmed through this book over the course of a week paying close attention to the code samples. The writing is really very good and didn't set off any of my grammar alarms that are constantly waiting in the background when I'm reading anything. That made the technical bits a lot more enjoyable.There were a lot of examples that were light and that you could go through from start to finish without getting mired in complicated logic. I didn't find any issues with the code itself which was also nice.If I had to offer a critique for a 2nd edition (if it remains a cookbook style offering) it would be to maybe explain less and show more. While the information in this one was really well written it could have almost dropped cookbook from the title and still been worth its salt.

James Anzalone Jun 12, 2020

Chapters are very well organized, following a coherent sequence. Although the book has 500+ pages, the way that is structured, in little doses, makes it easier to follow and be focused. Sections like How to do it and How it works help the reader showing all the necessary steps.I love the functionality of the book, with everyday examples like ordering a pizza, how to create a report about watched movies or how to create a CSV spreadsheet, the book is more interesting. Although the book is created for people with a knowledge about Python, it has a lot of information for a lower level reader.

Viktor Kis Jun 11, 2020

Really appreciate any book that starts off driving home the importance of setting virtual environments properly. Yes, a lot of information now days can be searched online, but if you are here, you are willing to chip in a little for a fresh set of neatly laid out concepts – and this book is just that. It is a great compilation of relatable example driven concepts. Regular expression, argument parsing, logging, directory manipulation, reading txt/pdf/image/csv/word/excel files are all bread and butter now days and if any of these topics daunted you, this book gives you a nice high-level intro into them. The web sections were great for me who has really only scrapped the web, I was exposed to other ideas such as automated emails and text messages. Although you don’t have to read the book chapter by chapter, I would have preferred to put the testing section up front to drive test driven development home a bit more. Overall it was a great read – thanks for collecting these ideas/examples and contributing back to the python community!

Stephan Miller Jun 22, 2020

This book has a lot of information. First it shows you how to set up a Python environment for automation, including installing Python, setting up cron jobs to run your tasks on schedule, and adding notifications so you can get details on your jobs delivered to your email.And then it gets interesting. This book differs slightly from other cookbooks I have read that just list a bunch of small coding examples to do specific things. These recipes build on each other and can be mixed and matched to automate a process you are doing manually.The topics covered are web scraping, file processing, report generation, spreadsheet manipulation, data processing and cleaning, graph and chart generation, communication, marketing automation, machine learning, code testing and debugging. You will definitely find enough examples here to automate any process you may have and free up time.

Python Automation Cookbook: 75 Python automation recipes for web scraping; data wrangling; and Excel, report, and email processing , Second Edition

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