Automate the Boring Stuff with Python: Practical Programming for Total Beginners, 2nd Edition
by Al Sweigart
Automate the Boring Stuff with Python, 2nd Edition
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- About the Author
- About the Technical Reviewer
- BRIEF CONTENTS
- CONTENTS IN DETAIL
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- PART I: PYTHON PROGRAMMING BASICS
- 1 PYTHON BASICS
- 2 FLOW CONTROL
- Boolean Values
- Comparison Operators
- Boolean Operators
- Mixing Boolean and Comparison Operators
- Elements of Flow Control
- Program Execution
- Flow Control Statements
- Importing Modules
- Ending a Program Early with the sys.exit() Function
- A Short Program: Guess the Number
- A Short Program: Rock, Paper, Scissors
- Summary
- Practice Questions
- 3 FUNCTIONS
- 4 LISTS
- 5 DICTIONARIES AND STRUCTURING DATA
- 6 MANIPULATING STRINGS
- Working with Strings
- Putting Strings Inside Other Strings
- Useful String Methods
- Numeric Values of Characters with the ord() and chr() Functions
- Copying and Pasting Strings with the pyperclip Module
- Project: Multi-Clipboard Automatic Messages
- Project: Adding Bullets to Wiki Markup
- A Short Progam: Pig Latin
- Summary
- Practice Questions
- Practice Projects
- PART II: AUTOMATING TASKS
- 7 PATTERN MATCHING WITH REGULAR EXPRESSIONS
- Finding Patterns of Text Without Regular Expressions
- Finding Patterns of Text with Regular Expressions
- More Pattern Matching with Regular Expressions
- Greedy and Non-greedy Matching
- The findall() Method
- Character Classes
- Making Your Own Character Classes
- The Caret and Dollar Sign Characters
- The Wildcard Character
- Review of Regex Symbols
- Case-Insensitive Matching
- Substituting Strings with the sub() Method
- Managing Complex Regexes
- Combining re.IGNORECASE, re.DOTALL, and re.VERBOSE
- Project: Phone Number and Email Address Extractor
- Summary
- Practice Questions
- Practice Projects
- 8 INPUT VALIDATION
- 9 READING AND WRITING FILES
- 10 ORGANIZING FILES
- 11 DEBUGGING
- 12 WEB SCRAPING
- Project: mapIt.py with the webbrowser Module
- Downloading Files from the Web with the requests Module
- Saving Downloaded Files to the Hard Drive
- HTML
- Parsing HTML with the bs4 Module
- Project: Opening All Search Results
- Project: Downloading All XKCD Comics
- Controlling the Browser with the selenium Module
- Summary
- Practice Questions
- Practice Projects
- 13 WORKING WITH EXCEL SPREADSHEETS
- Excel Documents
- Installing the openpyxl Module
- Reading Excel Documents
- Project: Reading Data from a Spreadsheet
- Writing Excel Documents
- Project: Updating a Spreadsheet
- Setting the Font Style of Cells
- Font Objects
- Formulas
- Adjusting Rows and Columns
- Charts
- Summary
- Practice Questions
- Practice Projects
- 14 WORKING WITH GOOGLE SHEETS
- 15 WORKING WITH PDF AND WORD DOCUMENTS
- 16 WORKING WITH CSV FILES AND JSON DATA
- 17 KEEPING TIME, SCHEDULING TASKS, AND LAUNCHING PROGRAMS
- 18 SENDING EMAIL AND TEXT MESSAGES
- Sending and Receiving Email with the Gmail API
- SMTP
- Sending Email
- IMAP
- Retrieving and Deleting Emails with IMAP
- Project: Sending Member Dues Reminder Emails
- Sending Text Messages with SMS Email Gateways
- Sending Text Messages with Twilio
- Project: “Just Text Me” Module
- Summary
- Practice Questions
- Practice Projects
- 19 MANIPULATING IMAGES
- 20 CONTROLLING THE KEYBOARD AND MOUSE WITH GUI AUTOMATION
- Installing the pyautogui Module
- Setting Up Accessibility Apps on macOS
- Staying on Track
- Controlling Mouse Movement
- Controlling Mouse Interaction
- Planning Your Mouse Movements
- Working with the Screen
- Image Recognition
- Getting Window Information
- Controlling the Keyboard
- Setting Up Your GUI Automation Scripts
- Review of the PyAutoGUI Functions
- Project: Automatic Form Filler
- Displaying Message Boxes
- Summary
- Practice Questions
- Practice Projects
- A INSTALLING THIRD-PARTY MODULES
- B RUNNING PROGRAMS
- C ANSWERS TO THE PRACTICE QUESTIONS
- INDEX
Footnotes
Chapter 7
1. Cory Doctorow, “Here’s What ICT Should Really Teach Kids: How to Do Regular Expressions,” Guardian, December 4, 2012, http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2012/dec/04/ict-teach-kids-regular-expressions/.
Chapter 12
1. The answer is no.
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