In this fully revised third edition of 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 …

Chapter 15 – Working with PDF and Word Documents Chapter 16 – Working with CSV Files and JSON Data Chapter 17 – Keeping Time, Scheduling Tasks, and Launching Programs Chapter …

Chapter 1 - Python Basics Chapter 2 - if-else and Flow Control Chapter 3 - Loops Chapter 4 - Functions Chapter 5 - Debugging Chapter 6 - Lists Chapter 7 - Dictionaries and Structuring …

PDF apps often have rotation features that you can use to manually correct PDFs, but Python allows you to quickly apply rotations to many PDFs to automate this boring task.

The first part of this book covers basic Python programming concepts, and the second part covers various tasks you can have your computer automate. Each chapter in the second part has …

The PyPDF2 module doesn’t allow you to create PDF documents directly, but there’s a way to generate PDF files with Python if you’re on Windows and have Microsoft Word installed.

Using the interactive shell is great for learning what basic Python instructions do, so give it a try as you follow along. You’ll remember the things you do much better than the things you only read.

Most of this book’s examples (and Python’s documentation) use generic variable names like spam, eggs, and bacon, which come from the Monty Python “Spam” sketch.

You’ll find a complete introduction to SQLite and relational databases with Python’s sqlite3 module. You’ll explore how to compile Python scripts into executable programs on Windows, …

Say you have the boring job of merging several dozen PDF documents into a single PDF file. Each of them has a cover sheet as the first page, but you don’t want the cover sheet repeated …