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Automate the Boring Stuff with Python

I don’t generally buy programming books, but “Automate the Boring Stuff with Python” is one of the rare exceptions. It’s available for free in this link https://automatetheboringstuff.com/, but I made the purchase because it’s the type of reference book that will be so useful for me that I’ll continue to reference it over and over and will be a regular fixture on my desk for a long time.

As I was flipping the pages, I kept thinking that this is exactly the book that I would write if I were inclined to write a book. While I’ve been coding in Python for a few months, this really tied together a few things for me in terms of logging, exceptions and debugging, as well as just being an overall excellent guide for doing the stuff I generally write software for – which is ripping through or creating spreadsheets, text, images, sending reports and alerts, scraping data from websites; you know, the “boring stuff”. For a systems engineer, this is a great find.

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