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You're reading from Mastering Python Scripting for System Administrators Write scripts and automate them for real-world administration tasks using Python

Product type Paperback

Published in Jan 2019

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781789133226

Length 318 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Python

Concepts

System Administration

Author (1):

Ganesh Sanjiv Naik

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Table of Contents (21) Chapters

Preface

1. Python Scripting Overview FREE CHAPTER

2. Debugging and Profiling Python Scripts

3. Unit Testing - Introduction to the Unit Testing Framework

4. Automating Regular Administrative Activities

5. Handling Files, Directories, and Data

6. File Archiving, Encrypting, and Decrypting

7. Text Processing and Regular Expressions

8. Documentation and Reporting

9. Working with Various Files

10. Basic Networking - Socket Programming

11. Handling Emails Using Python Scripting

12. Remote Monitoring of Hosts Over Telnet and SSH

13. Building Graphical User Interfaces

14. Working with Apache and Other Log Files

15. SOAP and REST API Communication

16. Web Scraping - Extracting Useful Data from Websites

17. Statistics Gathering and Reporting

18. MySQL and SQLite Database Administrations

19. Assessments

20. Other Books You May Enjoy

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Working with Various Files

In this chapter, you will learn about working with various types of files, such as PDF files, Excel , CSV , and txt files. Python has modules for performing operations on these files. You will learn how to open, edit, and get data from these files using Python.

In this chapter, the following topics will be covered:

Working with PDF files
Working with Excel files
Working with CSV files
Working with txt files

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Authors (1)

Ganesh Sanjiv Naik

Ganesh Sanjiv Naik is an author, consultant, and corporate trainer for embedded Android, embedded Linux, and Internet of Things related product development. He completed his computer engineering in 1988. Since then, he has worked in this industry. He has worked on projects including micro-controller based projects to advanced Embedded Android projects. He has more than 20 years of professional experience and project accomplishment in information technology. Ganesh has a passion and deep desire for teaching. He has trained 1,000 engineers in Linux and Android product development. He has developed a lot of training material as well as curriculum for various universities and training institutes. He has an interest in spiritual study and practices such as meditation. He is a certified yoga teacher. His hobbies include yoga and martial arts. He has worked as a corporate trainer for Indian Space Research Organization, Intel, GE, Samsung, Motorola, Penang Skill Development Center (Malaysia), various companies in Singapore as well as various other corporates in India and other countries. He has started a company called Levana Technologies, which works with the Penang Skill Development Center (Malaysia) for consulting and training activities. If you would like to send feedback, suggestions, or corrections in the book, he can be contacted at https://in.linkedin.com/in/naikganesh. This book is his real-life experience…. He has worked as a consultant and corporate trainer in the following skills: • Internet of Things • Embedded Android, Android internals, and device driver development • USB and PCI device driver development in Linux • Embedded Linux and device driver development • Unix Shell scripting with sed and awk • Embedded C++ and C programming • Operating systems, software engineering, and networking • Problem solving—analysis, reasoning, and solution techniques for software engineers

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