Automate The Boring Stuff With Python, 2Nd Edition: Practical Programming For Total Beginners

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Brief Contents Contents in Detail Acknowledgments Introduction Whom Is This Book For? Conventions What Is Programming? What Is Python? Programmers Don’t Need to Know Much Math You Are Not Too Old to Learn Programming Programming Is a Creative Activity About This Book Downloading and Installing Python Downloading and Installing Mu Starting Mu Starting IDLE The Interactive Shell Installing Third-Party Modules How to Find Help Asking Smart Programming Questions Summary Part I: Python Programming Basics Chapter 1: Python Basics Entering Expressions into the Interactive Shell The Integer, Floating-Point, and String Data Types String Concatenation and Replication Storing Values in Variables Assignment Statements Variable Names Your First Program Dissecting Your Program Comments The print() Function The input() Function Printing the User’s Name The len() Function The str(), int(), and float() Functions Summary Practice Questions Chapter 2: Flow Control Boolean Values Comparison Operators Boolean Operators Binary Boolean Operators The not Operator Mixing Boolean and Comparison Operators Elements of Flow Control Conditions Blocks of Code Program Execution Flow Control Statements if Statements else Statements elif Statements while Loop Statements break Statements continue Statements for Loops and the range() Function Importing Modules from import Statements Ending a Program Early with the sys.exit() Function A Short Program: Guess the Number A Short Program: Rock, Paper, Scissors Summary Practice Questions Chapter 3: Functions def Statements with Parameters Define, Call, Pass, Argument, Parameter Return Values and return Statements The None Value Keyword Arguments and the print() Function The Call Stack Local and Global Scope Local Variables Cannot Be Used in the Global Scope Local Scopes Cannot Use Variables in Other Local Scopes Global Variables Can Be Read from a Local Scope Local and Global Variables with the Same Name The global Statement Exception Handling A Short Program: Zigzag Summary Practice Questions Practice Projects The Collatz Sequence Input Validation Chapter 4: Lists The List Data Type Getting Individual Values in a List with Indexes Negative Indexes Getting a List from Another List with Slices Getting a List’s Length with the len() Function Changing Values in a List with Indexes List Concatenation and List Replication Removing Values from Lists with del Statements Working with Lists Using for Loops with Lists The in and not in Operators The Multiple Assignment Trick Using the enumerate() Function with Lists Using the random.choice() and random.shuffle() Functions with Lists Augmented Assignment Operators Methods Finding a Value in a List with the index() Method Adding Values to Lists with the append() and insert() Methods Removing Values from Lists with the remove() Method Sorting the Values in a List with the sort() Method Reversing the Values in a List with the reverse() Method Example Program: Magic 8 Ball with a List Sequence Data Types Mutable and Immutable Data Types The Tuple Data Type Converting Types with the list() and tuple() Functions References Identity and the id() Function Passing References The copy Module’s copy() and deepcopy() Functions A Short Program: Conway’s Game of Life Summary Practice Questions Practice Projects Comma Code Coin Flip Streaks Character Picture Grid Chapter 5: Dictionaries and Structuring Data The Dictionary Data Type Dictionaries vs. Lists The keys(), values(), and items() Methods Checking Whether a Key or Value Exists in a Dictionary The get() Method The setdefault() Method Pretty Printing Using Data Structures to Model Real-World Things A Tic-Tac-Toe Board Nested Dictionaries and Lists Summary Practice Questions Practice Projects Chess Dictionary Validator Fantasy Game Inventory List to Dictionary Function for Fantasy Game Inventory Chapter 6: Manipulating Strings Working with Strings String Literals Indexing and Slicing Strings The in and not in Operators with Strings Putting Strings Inside Other Strings Useful String Methods The upper(), lower(), isupper(), and islower() Methods The isX() Methods The startswith() and endswith() Methods The join() and split() Methods Splitting Strings with the partition() Method Justifying Text with the rjust(), ljust(), and center() Methods Removing Whitespace with the strip(), rstrip(), and lstrip() Methods Numeric Values of Characters with the ord() and chr() Functions Copying and Pasting Strings with the pyperclip Module Project: Multi-Clipboard Automatic Messages Step 1: Program Design and Data Structures Step 2: Handle Command Line Arguments Step 3: Copy the Right Phrase Project: Adding Bullets to Wiki Markup Step 1: Copy and Paste from the Clipboard Step 2: Separate the Lines of Text and Add the Star Step 3: Join the Modified Lines A Short Progam: Pig Latin Summary Practice Questions Practice Projects Table Printer Zombie Dice Bots Part II: Automating Tasks Chapter 7: Pattern Matching with Regular Expressions Finding Patterns of Text Without Regular Expressions Finding Patterns of Text with Regular Expressions Creating Regex Objects Matching Regex Objects Review of Regular Expression Matching More Pattern Matching with Regular Expressions Grouping with Parentheses Matching Multiple Groups with the Pipe Optional Matching with the Question Mark Matching Zero or More with the Star Matching One or More with the Plus Matching Specific Repetitions with Braces Greedy and Non-greedy Matching The findall() Method Character Classes Making Your Own Character Classes The Caret and Dollar Sign Characters The Wildcard Character Matching Everything with Dot-Star Matching Newlines with the Dot 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 Step 1: Create a Regex for Phone Numbers Step 2: Create a Regex for Email Addresses Step 3: Find All Matches in the Clipboard Text Step 4: Join the Matches into a String for the Clipboard Running the Program Ideas for Similar Programs Summary Practice Questions Practice Projects Date Detection Strong Password Detection Regex Version of the strip() Method Chapter 8: Input Validation The PyInputPlus Module The min, max, greaterThan, and lessThan Keyword Arguments The blank Keyword Argument The limit, timeout, and default Keyword Arguments The allowRegexes and blockRegexes Keyword Arguments Passing a Custom Validation Function to inputCustom() Project: How to Keep an Idiot Busy for Hours Project: Multiplication Quiz Summary Practice Questions Practice Projects Sandwich Maker Write Your Own Multiplication Quiz Chapter 9: Reading and Writing Files Files and File Paths Backslash on Windows and Forward Slash on macOS and Linux Using the / Operator to Join Paths The Current Working Directory The Home Directory Absolute vs. Relative Paths Creating New Folders Using the os.makedirs() Function Handling Absolute and Relative Paths Getting the Parts of a File Path Finding File Sizes and Folder Contents Modifying a List of Files Using Glob Patterns Checking Path Validity The File Reading/Writing Process Opening Files with the open() Function Reading the Contents of Files Writing to Files Saving Variables with the shelve Module Saving Variables with the pprint.pformat() Function Project: Generating Random Quiz Files Step 1: Store the Quiz Data in a Dictionary Step 2: Create the Quiz File and Shuffle the Question Order Step 3: Create the Answer Options Step 4: Write Content to the Quiz and Answer Key Files Project: Updatable Multi-Clipboard Step 1: Comments and Shelf Setup Step 2: Save Clipboard Content with a Keyword Step 3: List Keywords and Load a Keyword’s Content Summary Practice Questions Practice Projects Extending the Multi-Clipboard Mad Libs Regex Search Chapter 10: Organizing Files The shutil Module Copying Files and Folders Moving and Renaming Files and Folders Permanently Deleting Files and Folders Safe Deletes with the send2trash Module Walking a Directory Tree Compressing Files with the zipfile Module Reading ZIP Files Extracting from ZIP Files Creating and Adding to ZIP Files Project: Renaming Files with American-Style Dates to European-Style Dates Step 1: Create a Regex for American-Style Dates Step 2: Identify the Date Parts from the Filenames Step 3: Form the New Filename and Rename the Files Ideas for Similar Programs Project: Backing Up a Folder into a ZIP File Step 1: Figure Out the ZIP File’s Name Step 2: Create the New ZIP File Step 3: Walk the Directory Tree and Add to the ZIP File Ideas for Similar Programs Summary Practice Questions Practice Projects Selective Copy Deleting Unneeded Files Filling in the Gaps Chapter 11: Debugging Raising Exceptions Getting the Traceback as a String Assertions Using an Assertion in a Traffic Light Simulation Logging Using the logging Module Don’t Debug with the print() Function Logging Levels Disabling Logging Logging to a File Mu’s Debugger Continue Step In Step Over Step Out Stop Debugging a Number Adding Program Breakpoints Summary Practice Questions Practice Project Debugging Coin Toss Chapter 12: Web Scraping Project: mapIt.py with the webbrowser Module Step 1: Figure Out the URL Step 2: Handle the Command Line Arguments Step 3: Handle the Clipboard Content and Launch the Browser Ideas for Similar Programs Downloading Files from the Web with the requests Module Downloading a Web Page with the requests.get() Function Checking for Errors Saving Downloaded Files to the Hard Drive HTML Resources for Learning HTML A Quick Refresher Viewing the Source HTML of a Web Page Opening Your Browser’s Developer Tools Using the Developer Tools to Find HTML Elements Parsing HTML with the bs4 Module Creating a BeautifulSoup Object from HTML Finding an Element with the select() Method Getting Data from an Element’s Attributes Project: Opening All Search Results Step 1: Get the Command Line Arguments and Request the Search Page Step 2: Find All the Results Step 3: Open Web Browsers for Each Result Ideas for Similar Programs Project: Downloading All XKCD Comics Step 1: Design the Program Step 2: Download the Web Page Step 3: Find and Download the Comic Image Step 4: Save the Image and Find the Previous Comic Ideas for Similar Programs Controlling the Browser with the selenium Module Starting a selenium-Controlled Browser Finding Elements on the Page Clicking the Page Filling Out and Submitting Forms Sending Special Keys Clicking Browser Buttons More Information on Selenium Summary Practice Questions Practice Projects Command Line Emailer Image Site Downloader 2048 Link Verification Chapter 13: Working with Excel Spreadsheets Excel Documents Installing the openpyxl Module Reading Excel Documents Opening Excel Documents with OpenPyXL Getting Sheets from the Workbook Getting Cells from the Sheets Converting Between Column Letters and Numbers Getting Rows and Columns from the Sheets Workbooks, Sheets, Cells Project: Reading Data from a Spreadsheet Step 1: Read the Spreadsheet Data Step 2: Populate the Data Structure Step 3: Write the Results to a File Ideas for Similar Programs Writing Excel Documents Creating and Saving Excel Documents Creating and Removing Sheets Writing Values to Cells Project: Updating a Spreadsheet Step 1: Set Up a Data Structure with the Update Information Step 2: Check All Rows and Update Incorrect Prices Ideas for Similar Programs Setting the Font Style of Cells Font Objects Formulas Adjusting Rows and Columns Setting Row Height and Column Width Merging and Unmerging Cells Freezing Panes Charts Summary Practice Questions Practice Projects Multiplication Table Maker Blank Row Inserter Spreadsheet Cell Inverter Text Files to Spreadsheet Spreadsheet to Text Files Chapter 14: Working with Google Sheets Installing and Setting Up EZSheets Obtaining Credentials and Token Files Revoking the Credentials File Spreadsheet Objects Creating, Uploading, and Listing Spreadsheets Spreadsheet Attributes Downloading and Uploading Spreadsheets Deleting Spreadsheets Sheet Objects Reading and Writing Data Creating and Deleting Sheets Copying Sheets Working with Google Sheets Quotas Summary Practice Questions Practice Projects Downloading Google Forms Data Converting Spreadsheets to Other Formats Finding Mistakes in a Spreadsheet Chapter 15: Working with PDF and Word Documents PDF Documents Extracting Text from PDFs Decrypting PDFs Creating PDFs Project: Combining Select Pages from Many PDFs Step 1: Find All PDF Files Step 2: Open Each PDF Step 3: Add Each Page Step 4: Save the Results Ideas for Similar Programs Word Documents Reading Word Documents Getting the Full Text from a .docx File Styling Paragraph and Run Objects Creating Word Documents with Nondefault Styles Run Attributes Writing Word Documents Adding Headings Adding Line and Page Breaks Adding Pictures Creating PDFs from Word Documents Summary Practice Questions Practice Projects PDF Paranoia Custom Invitations as Word Documents Brute-Force PDF Password Breaker Chapter 16: Working with CSV Files and JSON Data The csv Module reader Objects Reading Data from reader Objects in a for Loop writer Objects The delimiter and lineterminator Keyword Arguments DictReader and DictWriter CSV Objects Project: Removing the Header from CSV Files Step 1: Loop Through Each CSV File Step 2: Read in the CSV File Step 3: Write Out the CSV File Without the First Row Ideas for Similar Programs JSON and APIs The json Module Reading JSON with the loads() Function Writing JSON with the dumps() Function Project: Fetching Current Weather Data Step 1: Get Location from the Command Line Argument Step 2: Download the JSON Data Step 3: Load JSON Data and Print Weather Ideas for Similar Programs Summary Practice Questions Practice Project Excel-to-CSV Converter Chapter 17: Keeping Time, Scheduling Tasks, and Launching Programs The time Module The time.time() Function The time.sleep() Function Rounding Numbers Project: Super Stopwatch Step 1: Set Up the Program to Track Times Step 2: Track and Print Lap Times Ideas for Similar Programs The datetime Module The timedelta Data Type Pausing Until a Specific Date Converting datetime Objects into Strings Converting Strings into datetime Objects Review of Python’s Time Functions Multithreading Passing Arguments to the Thread’s Target Function Concurrency Issues Project: Multithreaded XKCD Downloader Step 1: Modify the Program to Use a Function Step 2: Create and Start Threads Step 3: Wait for All Threads to End Launching Other Programs from Python Passing Command Line Arguments to the Popen() Function Task Scheduler, launchd, and cron Opening Websites with Python Running Other Python Scripts Opening Files with Default Applications Project: Simple Countdown Program Step 1: Count Down Step 2: Play the Sound File Ideas for Similar Programs Summary Practice Questions Practice Projects Prettified Stopwatch Scheduled Web Comic Downloader Chapter 18: Sending Email and Text Messages Sending and Receiving Email with the Gmail API Enabling the Gmail API Sending Mail from a Gmail Account Reading Mail from a Gmail Account Searching Mail from a Gmail Account Downloading Attachments from a Gmail Account SMTP Sending Email Connecting to an SMTP Server Sending the SMTP “Hello” Message Starting TLS Encryption Logging In to the SMTP Server Sending an Email Disconnecting from the SMTP Server IMAP Retrieving and Deleting Emails with IMAP Connecting to an IMAP Server Logging In to the IMAP Server Searching for Email Fetching an Email and Marking It as Read Getting Email Addresses from a Raw Message Getting the Body from a Raw Message Deleting Emails Disconnecting from the IMAP Server Project: Sending Member Dues Reminder Emails Step 1: Open the Excel File Step 2: Find All Unpaid Members Step 3: Send Customized Email Reminders Sending Text Messages with SMS Email Gateways Sending Text Messages with Twilio Signing Up for a Twilio Account Sending Text Messages Project: “Just Text Me” Module Summary Practice Questions Practice Projects Random Chore Assignment Emailer Umbrella Reminder Auto Unsubscriber Controlling Your Computer Through Email Chapter 19: Manipulating Images Computer Image Fundamentals Colors and RGBA Values Coordinates and Box Tuples Manipulating Images with Pillow Working with the Image Data Type Cropping Images Copying and Pasting Images onto Other Images Resizing an Image Rotating and Flipping Images Changing Individual Pixels Project: Adding a Logo Step 1: Open the Logo Image Step 2: Loop Over All Files and Open Images Step 3: Resize the Images Step 4: Add the Logo and Save the Changes Ideas for Similar Programs Drawing on Images Drawing Shapes Drawing Text Summary Practice Questions Practice Projects Extending and Fixing the Chapter Project Programs Identifying Photo Folders on the Hard Drive Custom Seating Cards Chapter 20: Controlling the Keyboard and Mouse with GUI Automation Installing the pyautogui Module Setting Up Accessibility Apps on macOS Staying on Track Pauses and Fail-Safes Shutting Down Everything by Logging Out Controlling Mouse Movement Moving the Mouse Getting the Mouse Position Controlling Mouse Interaction Clicking the Mouse Dragging the Mouse Scrolling the Mouse Planning Your Mouse Movements Working with the Screen Getting a Screenshot Analyzing the Screenshot Image Recognition Getting Window Information Obtaining the Active Window Other Ways of Obtaining Windows Manipulating Windows Controlling the Keyboard Sending a String from the Keyboard Key Names Pressing and Releasing the Keyboard Hotkey Combinations Setting Up Your GUI Automation Scripts Review of the PyAutoGUI Functions Project: Automatic Form Filler Step 1: Figure Out the Steps Step 2: Set Up Coordinates Step 3: Start Typing Data Step 4: Handle Select Lists and Radio Buttons Step 5: Submit the Form and Wait Displaying Message Boxes Summary Practice Questions Practice Projects Looking Busy Using the Clipboard to Read a Text Field Instant Messenger Bot Game-Playing Bot Tutorial Appendix A: Installing Third-Party Modules The pip Tool Installing Third-Party Modules Installing Modules for the Mu Editor Appendix B: Running Programs Running Programs from the Terminal Window Running Python Programs on Windows Running Python Programs on macOS Running Python Programs on Ubuntu Linux Running Python Programs with Assertions Disabled Appendix C: Answers to the Practice Questions Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Chapter 9 Chapter 10 Chapter 11 Chapter 12 Chapter 13 Chapter 14 Chapter 15 Chapter 16 Chapter 17 Chapter 18 Chapter 19 Chapter 20 Index The second edition of this best-selling Python book (100,000 copies sold in print alone) uses Python 3 to teach even the technically uninclined how to write programs that do in minutes what would take hours to do by hand. There is no prior programming experience required and the book is loved by liberal arts majors and geeks alike. If you've ever spent hours renaming files or updating hundreds of spreadsheet cells, you know how tedious tasks like these can be. But what if you could have your computer do them for you? In this fully revised second edition of the best-selling classic Automate the Boring Stuff with Python, you'll learn how to use Python to write programs that do in minutes what would take you hours to do by hand--no prior programming experience required. You'll learn the basics Python and explore Python's rich library of modules for performing specific tasks, like scraping data off websites, reading PDF and Word documents, and automating clicking and typing tasks. The second edition of this international fan favorite includes a brand-new chapter on input validation, as well as tutorials on automating Gmail and Google Sheets, plus tips on automatically updating CSV files. You'll learn how to create programs that effortlessly perform useful feats of automation to: " Search for text in a file or across multiple files " Create, update, move, and rename files and folders " Search the Web and download online content " Update and format data in Excel spreadsheets of any size " Split, merge, watermark, and encrypt PDFs " Send email responses and text notifications " Fill out online forms Step-by-step instructions walk you through each program, and updated practice projects at the end of each chapter challenge you to improve those programs and use your newfound skills to automate similar tasks. Don't spend your time doing work a well-trained monkey could do. Even if you've never written a line of code, you can make your computer do the grunt work. Learn how in Automate the Boring Stuff with Python, 2nd Edition "If you've ever spent hours renaming files or updating hundreds of spreadsheet cells, you know how tedious tasks like these can be. But what if you could have your computer do them for you? In this fully revised second edition of the best-selling classic Automate the Boring Stuff with Python, you'll learn how to use Python to write programs that do in minutes what would take you hours to do by hand-no prior programming experience required. You'll learn the basics Python and explore Python's rich library of modules for performing specific tasks, like scraping data off websites, reading PDF and Word documents, and automating clicking and typing tasks. The second edition of this international fan favorite includes a brand-new chapter on input validation, as well as tutorials on automating Gmail and Google Sheets, plus tips on automatically updating CSV files. You'll learn how to create programs that effortlessly perform useful feats of automation to: Search for text in a file or across multiple files Create, update, move, and rename files and folders Search the Web and download online content Update and format data in Excel spreadsheets of any size Split, merge, watermark, and encrypt PDFs Send email responses and text notifications Fill out online forms Step-by-step instructions walk you through each program, and updated practice projects at the end of each chapter challenge you to improve those programs and use your newfound skills to automate similar tasks. Don't spend your time doing work a well-trained monkey could do. Even if you've never written a line of code, you can make your computer do the grunt work. Learn how in Automate the Boring Stuff with Python, 2nd Edition." -- Site web de l'éditeur If you've ever spent hours renaming files or updating hundreds of spreadsheet cells, you know how tedious tasks like these can be. But what if you could have your computer do them for you? In Automate the Boring Stuff with Python, you'll learn how to use Python to write programs that do in minutes what would take you hours to do by hand—no prior programming experience required. Once you've mastered the basics of programming, you'll create Python programs that effortlessly perform useful and impressive feats of automation to: - Search for text in a file or across multiple files - Create, update, move, and rename files and folders - Search the Web and download online content - Update and format data in Excel spreadsheets of any size - Split, merge, watermark, and encrypt PDFs - Send reminder emails and text notifications - Fill out online forms Step-by-step instructions walk you through each program, and practice projects at the end of each chapter challenge you to improve those programs and use your newfound skills to automate similar tasks. Don't spend your time doing work a well-trained monkey could do. 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