Giridhar C. Automate it!: Recipes to upskill your business

Packt Publishing, 2017. — 406 p. — ISBN: 978-1-78646-051-6True PDFLearn how to construct Python scripts to scrape data, manipulate files, and access websites' APIs
This book is designed for Python developers of any experience level, and the recipe-based approach will allow you to run code and get instant results
This book is written in Python 3.5 syntax to future-proof your automation and you'll get an understanding of how to customize the scripts to meet your future automation needsBook DescriptionThis book gives you a great selection of recipes to automate your business processes with Python, and provides a platform for you to understand how Python is useful to make time consuming and repetitive business tasks more efficient. Python is a mature high level language, has object-oriented programming features, powers various apps, has a huge set of modules, and great community support. Python is extremely easy to use, can help you get complex tasks done efficiently and is an apt choice for our needs.
With a classic problem-solution based approach and real-world examples, you will delve into things that automate your business processes. You will begin by learning about the Python modules to work with Web, Worksheets, Presentations and PDFs. You'll leverage Python recipes to automate processes in HR, Finance and making them efficient and reliable. For instance, company payroll - an integral process in HR will be automated with Python recipes.
You will see how to effectively and easily use Python code to manage SMS and voice notifications, opening a world of possibilities using cloud telephony to solve your business needs. Moving forward, you will learn to work with APIs, Webhooks and Emails to automate Marketing and Customer Support processes. Finally, using the various Python libraries, this book will arm you with knowledge to customize data solutions and generate reports to meet your business needs.
This book will help you up-skill and make your business processes efficient with the various Python recipes covered in this book.What you will learnImplement file deduplication and how to parse HTML content in Python.
Study an example application that will enable you to work with spreadsheets
Get acquainted with the Python modules used to work with e-mails
Manipulate images using Pillow and schedule tasks with respect to time zones
Use XML or JSON as a message format across distributed systems
Develop a Python application with logging and see an example of debugging
Integrate Python with Mongo and Redis databases
Generate reports using Pandas