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"Automate the Boring Stuff with Python" Table Of Contents:

• 1- Acknowledgments
• 2- Introduction
• 3- Whom Is This Book For?
• 4- Conventions
• 5- What Is Programming?
• 6- What Is Python?
• 7- Programmers Don't Need to Know Much Math
• 8- Programming Is a Creative Activity
• 9- About This Book
• 10- Downloading and Installing Python
• 11- Starting IDLE
• 12- The Interactive Shell
• 13- How to Find Help
• 14- Asking Smart Programming Questions
• 15- Summary
• 16- Python Programming Basics
• 17- Python Basics
• 18- Entering Expressions into the Interactive Shell
• 19- The Integer, Floating-Point, and String Data Types
• 20- String Concatenation and Replication
• 21- Storing Values in Variables
• 22- Assignment Statements
• 23- Variable Names
• 24- Your First Program
• 25- Dissecting Your Program
• 26- Comments
• 27- The print() Function
• 28- The input() Function
• 29- Printing the User's Name
• 30- The len() Function
• 31- The str(), int(), and float() Functions
• 32- Summary
• 33- Practice Questions
• 34- Flow Control
• 35- Boolean Values
• 36- Comparison Operators
• 37- Boolean Operators
• 38- Binary Boolean Operators
• 39- The not Operator
• 40- Mixing Boolean and Comparison Operators
• 41- Elements of Flow Control
• 42- Conditions
• 43- Blocks of Code
• 44- Program Execution
• 45- Flow Control Statements
• 46- if Statements
• 47- else Statements
• 48- elif Statements
• 49- while Loop Statements
• 50- break Statements
• 51- continue Statements
• 52- for Loops and the range() Function
• 53- Importing Modules
• 54- from import Statements
• 55- Ending a Program Early with sys.exit()
• 56- Summary
• 57- Practice Questions
• 58- Functions
• 59- def Statements with Parameters
• 60- Return Values and return Statements
• 61- The None Value
• 62- Keyword Arguments and print()
• 63- Local and Global Scope
• 64- Local Variables Cannot Be Used in the Global Scope
• 65- Local Scopes Cannot Use Variables in Other Local Scopes
• 66- Global Variables Can Be Read from a Local Scope
• 67- Local and Global Variables with the Same Name
• 68- The global Statement
• 69- Exception Handling
• 70- A Short Program: Guess the Number
• 71- Summary
• 72- Practice Questions
• 73- Practice Projects
• 74- The Collatz Sequence
• 75- Input Validation
• 76- Lists
• 77- The List Data Type
• 78- Getting Individual Values in a List with Indexes
• 79- Negative Indexes
• 80- Getting Sublists with Slices
• 81- Getting a List's Length with len()
• 82- Changing Values in a List with Indexes
• 83- List Concatenation and List Replication
• 84- Removing Values from Lists with del Statements
• 85- Working with Lists
• 86- Using for Loops with Lists
• 87- The in and not in Operators
• 88- The Multiple Assignment Trick
• 89- Augmented Assignment Operators
• 90- Methods
• 91- Finding a Value in a List with the index() Method
• 92- Adding Values to Lists with the append() and insert() Methods
• 93- Removing Values from Lists with remove()
• 94- Sorting the Values in a List with the sort() Method
• 95- Example Program: Magic 8 Ball with a List
• 96- List-like Types: Strings and Tuples
• 97- Mutable and Immutable Data Types
• 98- The Tuple Data Type
• 99- Converting Types with the list() and tuple() Functions
• 100- References
• 101- Passing References
• 102- The copy Module's copy() and deepcopy() Functions
• 103- Summary
• 104- Practice Questions
• 105- Practice Projects
• 106- Comma Code
• 107- Character Picture Grid
• 108- Dictionaries and Structuring Data
• 109- The Dictionary Data Type
• 110- Dictionaries vs. Lists
• 111- The keys(), values(), and items() Methods
• 112- Checking Whether a Key or Value Exists in a Dictionary
• 113- The get() Method
• 114- The setdefault() Method
• 115- Pretty Printing
• 116- Using Data Structures to Model Real-World Things
• 117- A Tic-Tac-Toe Board
• 118- Nested Dictionaries and Lists
• 119- Summary
• 120- Practice Questions
• 121- Practice Projects
• 122- Fantasy Game Inventory
• 123- List to Dictionary Function for Fantasy Game Inventory
• 124- Manipulating Strings
• 125- Working with Strings
• 126- String Literals
• 127- Indexing and Slicing Strings
• 128- The in and not in Operators with Strings
• 129- Useful String Methods
• 130- The upper(), lower(), isupper(), and islower() String Methods
• 131- The isX String Methods
• 132- The startswith() and endswith() String Methods
• 133- The join() and split() String Methods
• 134- Justifying Text with rjust(), ljust(), and center()
• 135- Removing Whitespace with strip(), rstrip(), and lstrip()
• 136- Copying and Pasting Strings with the pyperclip Module
• 137- Password Locker
• 138- Step 1: Program Design and Data Structures
• 139- Step 2: Handle Command Line Arguments
• 140- Step 3: Copy the Right Password
• 141- Adding Bullets to Wiki Markup
• 142- Step 1: Copy and Paste from the Clipboard
• 143- Step 2: Separate the Lines of Text and Add the Star
• 144- Step 3: Join the Modified Lines
• 145- Summary
• 146- Practice Questions
• 147- Practice Project
• 148- Table Printer
• 149- Automating Tasks
• 150- Pattern Matching with Regular Expressions
• 151- Finding Patterns of Text Without Regular Expressions
• 152- Finding Patterns of Text with Regular Expressions
• 153- Creating Regex Objects
• 154- Matching Regex Objects
• 155- Review of Regular Expression Matching
• 156- More Pattern Matching with Regular Expressions
• 157- Grouping with Parentheses
• 158- Matching Multiple Groups with the Pipe
• 159- Optional Matching with the Question Mark
• 160- Matching Zero or More with the Star
• 161- Matching One or More with the Plus
• 162- Matching Specific Repetitions with Curly Brackets
• 163- Greedy and Nongreedy Matching
• 164- The findall() Method
• 165- Character Classes
• 166- Making Your Own Character Classes
• 167- The Caret and Dollar Sign Characters
• 168- The Wildcard Character
• 169- Matching Everything with Dot-Star
• 170- Matching Newlines with the Dot Character
• 171- Review of Regex Symbols
• 172- Case-Insensitive Matching
• 173- Substituting Strings with the sub() Method
• 174- Managing Complex Regexes
• 175- Combining re.IGNORECASE, re.DOTALL, and re.VERBOSE
• 176- Project: Phone Number and Email Address Extractor
• 177- Step 1: Create a Regex for Phone Numbers
• 178- Step 2: Create a Regex for Email Addresses
• 179- Step 3: Find All Matches in the Clipboard Text
• 180- Step 4: Join the Matches into a String for the Clipboard
• 181- Running the Program
• 182- Ideas for Similar Programs
• 183- Summary
• 184- Practice Questions
• 185- Practice Projects
• 186- Strong Password Detection
• 187- Regex Version of strip()
• 188- Reading and Writing Files
• 189- Files and File Paths
• 190- Backslash on Windows and Forward Slash on OS X and Linux
• 191- The Current Working Directory
• 192- Absolute vs. Relative Paths
• 193- Creating New Folders with os.makedirs()
• 194- The os.path Module
• 195- Handling Absolute and Relative Paths
• 196- Finding File Sizes and Folder Contents
• 197- Checking Path Validity
• 198- The File Reading/Writing Process
• 199- Opening Files with the open() Function
• 200- Reading the Contents of Files
• 201- Writing to Files
• 202- Saving Variables with the shelve Module
• 203- Saving Variables with the pprint.pformat() Function
• 204- Project: Generating Random Quiz Files
• 205- Step 1: Store the Quiz Data in a Dictionary
• 206- Step 2: Create the Quiz File and Shuffle the Question Order
• 207- Step 3: Create the Answer Options
• 208- Step 4: Write Content to the Quiz and Answer Key Files
• 209- Project: Multiclipboard
• 210- Step 1: Comments and Shelf Setup
• 211- Step 2: Save Clipboard Content with a Keyword
• 212- Step 3: List Keywords and Load a Keyword's Content
• 213- Summary
• 214- Practice Questions
• 215- Practice Projects
• 216- Extending the Multiclipboard
• 217- Mad Libs
• 218- Regex Search
• 219- Organizing Files
• 220- The shutil Module
• 221- Copying Files and Folders
• 222- Moving and Renaming Files and Folders
• 223- Permanently Deleting Files and Folders
• 224- Safe Deletes with the send2trash Module
• 225- Walking a Directory Tree
• 226- Compressing Files with the zipfile Module
• 227- Reading ZIP Files
• 228- Extracting from ZIP Files
• 229- Creating and Adding to ZIP Files
• 230- Project: Renaming Files with American-Style Dates to European-Style Dates
• 231- Step 1: Create a Regex for American-Style Dates
• 232- Step 2: Identify the Date Parts from the Filenames
• 233- Step 3: Form the New Filename and Rename the Files
• 234- Ideas for Similar Programs
• 235- Project: Backing Up a Folder into a ZIP File
• 236- Step 1: Figure Out the ZIP File's Name
• 237- Step 2: Create the New ZIP File
• 238- Step 3: Walk the Directory Tree and Add to the ZIP File
• 239- Ideas for Similar Programs
• 240- Summary
• 241- Practice Questions
• 242- Practice Projects
• 243- Selective Copy
• 244- Deleting Unneeded Files
• 245- Filling in the Gaps
• 246- Debugging
• 247- Raising Exceptions
• 248- Getting the Traceback as a String
• 249- Assertions
• 250- Using an Assertion in a Traffic Light Simulation
• 251- Disabling Assertions
• 252- Logging
• 253- Using the logging Module
• 254- Don't Debug with print()
• 255- Logging Levels
• 256- Disabling Logging
• 257- Logging to a File
• 258- IDLE's Debugger
• 259- Go
• 260- Step
• 261- Over
• 262- Out
• 263- Quit
• 264- Debugging a Number Adding Program
• 265- Breakpoints
• 266- Summary
• 267- Practice Questions
• 268- Practice Project
• 269- Debugging Coin Toss
• 270- Web Scraping
• 271- Project: maplt.py with the webbrowser Module
• 272- Step 1: Figure Out the URL
• 273- Step 2: Handle the Command Line Arguments
• 274- Step 3: Handle the Clipboard Content and Launch the Browser
• 275- Ideas for Similar Programs
• 276- Downloading Files from the Web with the requests Module
• 277- Downloading a Web Page with the requests.get() Function
• 278- Checking for Errors
• 279- Saving Downloaded Files to the Hard Drive
• 280- HTML
• 281- Resources for Learning HTML
• 282- A Quick Refresher
• 283- Viewing the Source HTML of a Web Page
• 284- Opening Your Browser's Developer Tools
• 285- Using the Developer Tools to Find HTML Elements
• 286- Parsing HTML with the BeautifulSoup Module
• 287- Creating a BeautifulSoup Object from HTML
• 288- Finding an Element with the select() Method
• 289- Getting Data from an Element's Attributes
• 290- Project: "I'm Feeling Lucky" Google Search
• 291- Step 1: Get the Command Line Arguments and Request the Search Page
• 292- Step 2: Find All the Results
• 293- Step 3: Open Web Browsers for Each Result
• 294- Ideas for Similar Programs
• 295- Project: Downloading All XKCD Comics
• 296- Step 1: Design the Program
• 297- Step 2: Download the Web Page
• 298- Step 3: Find and Download the Comic Image
• 299- Step 4: Save the Image and Find the Previous Comic
• 300- Ideas for Similar Programs
• 301- Controlling the Browser with the selenium Module
• 302- Starting a Selenium-Controlled Browser
• 303- Finding Elements on the Page
• 304- Clicking the Page
• 305- Filling Out and Submitting Forms
• 306- Sending Special Keys
• 307- Clicking Browser Buttons
• 308- More Information on Selenium
• 309- Summary
• 310- Practice Questions
• 311- Practice Projects
• 312- Command Line Emailer
• 313- Image Site Downloader
• 314- 2048
• 315- Link Verification
• 316- Working with Excel Spreadsheets
• 317- Excel Documents
• 318- Installing the openpyxl Module
• 319- Reading Excel Documents
• 320- Opening Excel Documents with OpenPyXL
• 321- Getting Sheets from the Workbook
• 322- Getting Cells from the Sheets
• 323- Converting Between Column Letters and Numbers
• 324- Getting Rows and Columns from the Sheets
• 325- Workbooks, Sheets, Cells
• 326- Project: Reading Data from a Spreadsheet
• 327- Step 1: Read the Spreadsheet Data
• 328- Step 2: Populate the Data Structure
• 329- Step 3: Write the Results to a File
• 330- Ideas for Similar Programs
• 331- Writing Excel Documents
• 332- Creating and Saving Excel Documents
• 333- Creating and Removing Sheets
• 334- Writing Values to Cells
• 335- Project: Updating a Spreadsheet
• 336- Step 1: Set Up a Data Structure with the Update Information
• 337- Step 2: Check All Rows and Update Incorrect Prices
• 338- Ideas for Similar Programs
• 339- Setting the Font Style of Cells
• 340- Font Objects
• 341- Formulas
• 342- Adjusting Rows and Columns
• 343- Setting Row Height and Column Width
• 344- Merging and Unmerging Cells
• 345- Freeze Panes
• 346- Charts
• 347- Summary
• 348- Practice Questions
• 349- Practice Projects
• 350- Multiplication Table Maker
• 351- Blank Row Inserter
• 352- Spreadsheet Cell Inverter
• 353- Text Files to Spreadsheet
• 354- Spreadsheet to Text Files
• 355- Working with PDF and Word Documents
• 356- PDF Documents
• 357- Extracting Text from PDFs
• 358- Decrypting PDFs
• 359- Creating PDFs
• 360- Project: Combining Select Pages from Many PDFs
• 361- Step 1: Find All PDF Files
• 362- Step 2: Open Each PDF
• 363- Step 3: Add Each Page
• 364- Step 4: Save the Results
• 365- Ideas for Similar Programs
• 366- Word Documents
• 367- Reading Word Documents
• 368- Getting the Full Text from a .docx File
• 369- Styling Paragraph and Run Objects
• 370- Creating Word Documents with Nondefault Styles
• 371- Run Attributes
• 372- Writing Word Documents
• 373- Adding Headings
• 374- Adding Line and Page Breaks
• 375- Adding Pictures
• 376- Summary
• 377- Practice Questions
• 378- Practice Projects
• 379- PDF Paranoia
• 380- Custom Invitations as Word Documents
• 381- Brute-Force PDF Password Breaker
• 382- Working with CSV Files and JSON Data
• 383- The csv Module
• 384- Reader Objects
• 385- Reading Data from Reader Objects in a for Loop
• 386- Writer Objects
• 387- The Delimiter and Lineterminator Keyword Arguments
• 388- Project: Removing the Header from CSV Files
• 389- Step 1: Loop Through Each CSV File
• 390- Step 2: Read in the CSV File
• 391- Step 3: Write Out the CSV File Without the First Row
• 392- Ideas for Similar Programs
• 393- JSON and APIs
• 394- The json Module
• 395- Reading JSON with the loads() Function
• 396- Writing JSON with the dumps() Function
• 397- Project: Fetching Current Weather Data
• 398- Step 1: Get Location from the Command Line Argument
• 399- Step 2: Download the JSON Data
• 400- Step 3: Load JSON Data and Print Weather
• 401- Ideas for Similar Programs
• 402- Summary
• 403- Practice Questions
• 404- Practice Project
• 405- Excel-to-CSV Converter
• 406- Keeping Time, Scheduling Tasks, and Launching Programs
• 407- The time Module
• 408- The time.time() Function
• 409- The time.sleep() Function
• 410- Rounding Numbers
• 411- Project: Super Stopwatch
• 412- Step 1: Set Up the Program to Track Times
• 413- Step 2: Track and Print Lap Times
• 414- Ideas for Similar Programs
• 415- The datetime Module
• 416- The timedelta Data Type
• 417- Pausing Until a Specific Date
• 418- Converting Datetime Objects into Strings
• 419- Converting Strings into Datetime Objects
• 420- Review of Python's Time Functions
• 421- Multithreading
• 422- Passing Arguments to the Thread's Target Function
• 423- Concurrency Issues
• 424- Project: Multithreaded XKCD Downloader
• 425- Step 1: Modify the Program to Use a Function
• 426- Step 2: Create and Start Threads
• 427- Step 3: Wait for All Threads to End
• 428- Launching Other Programs from Python
• 429- Passing Command Line Arguments to Popen()
• 430- Task Scheduler, launchd, and cron
• 431- Opening Websites with Python
• 432- Running Other Python Scripts
• 433- Opening Files with Default Applications
• 434- Project: Simple Countdown Program
• 435- Step 1: Count Down
• 436- Step 2: Play the Sound File
• 437- Ideas for Similar Programs
• 438- Summary
• 439- Practice Questions
• 440- Practice Projects
• 441- Prettified Stopwatch
• 442- Scheduled Web Comic Downloader
• 443- Sending Email and Text Messages
• 444- SMTP
• 445- Sending Email
• 446- Connecting to an SMTP Server
• 447- Sending the SMTP 'Hello' Message
• 448- Starting TLS Encryption
• 449- Logging in to the SMTP Server
• 450- Sending an Email
• 451- Disconnecting from the SMTP Server
• 452- IMAP
• 453- Retrieving and Deleting Emails with IMAP
• 454- Connecting to an IMAP Server
• 455- Logging in to the IMAP Server
• 456- Searching for Email
• 457- Fetching an Email and Marking It As Read
• 458- Getting Email Addresses from a Raw Message
• 459- Getting the Body from a Raw Message
• 460- Deleting Emails
• 461- Disconnecting from the IMAP Server
• 462- Project: Sending Member Dues Reminder Emails
• 463- Step 1: Open the Excel File
• 464- Step 2: Find All Unpaid Members
• 465- Step 3: Send Customized Email Reminders
• 466- Sending Text Messages with Twilio
• 467- Signing Up for a Twilio Account
• 468- Sending Text Messages
• 469- Project: "Just Text Me" Module
• 470- Summary
• 471- Practice Questions
• 472- Practice Projects
• 473- Random Chore Assignment Emailer
• 474- Umbrella Reminder
• 475- Auto Unsubscriber
• 476- Controlling Your Computer Through Email
• 477- Manipulating Images
• 478- Computer Image Fundamentals
• 479- Colors and RGBA Values
• 480- Coordinates and Box Tuples
• 481- Manipulating Images with Pillow
• 482- Working with the Image Data Type
• 483- Cropping Images
• 484- Copying and Pasting Images onto Other Images
• 485- Resizing an Image
• 486- Rotating and Flipping Images
• 487- Changing Individual Pixels
• 488- Project: Adding a Logo
• 489- Step 1: Open the Logo Image
• 490- Step 2: Loop Over All Files and Open Images
• 491- Step 3: Resize the Images
• 492- Step 4: Add the Logo and Save the Changes
• 493- Ideas for Similar Programs
• 494- Drawing on Images
• 495- Drawing Shapes
• 496- Drawing Text
• 497- Summary
• 498- Practice Questions
• 499- Practice Projects
• 500- Extending and Fixing the Chapter Project Programs
• 501- Identifying Photo Folders on the Hard Drive
• 502- Custom Seating Cards
• 503- Controlling the Keyboard and Mouse with GUI Automation
• 504- Installing the PyAutoGUI Module
• 505- Staying on Track
• 506- Shutting Down Everything by Logging Out
• 507- Pauses and Fail-Safes
• 508- Controlling Mouse Movement
• 509- Moving the Mouse
• 510- Getting the Mouse Position
• 511- Project: "Where Is the Mouse Right Now?"
• 512- Step 1: Import the Module
• 513- Step 2: Set Up the Quit Code and Infinite Loop
• 514- Step 3: Get and Print the Mouse Coordinates
• 515- Controlling Mouse Interaction
• 516- Clicking the Mouse
• 517- Dragging the Mouse
• 518- Scrolling the Mouse
• 519- Working with the Screen
• 520- Getting a Screenshot
• 521- Analyzing the Screenshot
• 522- Project: Extending the mouseNow Program
• 523- Image Recognition
• 524- Controlling the Keyboard
• 525- Sending a String from the Keyboard
• 526- Key Names
• 527- Pressing and Releasing the Keyboard
• 528- Hotkey Combinations
• 529- Review of the PyAutoGUI Functions
• 530- Project: Automatic Form Filler
• 531- Step 1: Figure Out the Steps
• 532- Step 2: Set Up Coordinates
• 533- Step 3: Start Typing Data
• 534- Step 4: Handle Select Lists and Radio Buttons
• 535- Step 5: Submit the Form and Wait
• 536- Summary
• 537- Practice Questions
• 538- Practice Projects
• 539- Looking Busy
• 540- Instant Messenger Bot
• 541- Game-Playing Bot Tutorial
• 542- Installing Third-Party Modules
• 543- The pip Tool
• 544- Installing Third-Party Modules
• 545- Running Programs
• 546- Shebang Line
• 547- Running Python Programs on Windows
• 548- Running Python Programs on OS X and Linux
• 549- Running Python Programs with Assertions Disabled
• 550- Answers to the Practice Questions
• 551- Chapter 1
• 552- Chapter 2
• 553- Chapter 3
• 554- Chapter 4
• 555- Chapter 5
• 556- Chapter 6
• 557- Chapter 7
• 558- Chapter 8
• 559- Chapter 9
• 560- Chapter 10
• 561- Chapter 11
• 562- Chapter 12
• 563- Chapter 13
• 564- Chapter 14
• 565- Chapter 15
• 566- Chapter 16
• 567- Chapter 17
• 568- Chapter 18
• 569- Index

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