Automate it!: recipes to upskill your business: put your life on autopilot and make your business processes efficient with the magic and power of Python

Annotation Put your life on autopilot and make your business processes efficient with the magic and power of Python!About This Book Learn how to construct Python scripts to scrape data, manipulate files, and access websites' APIs Get to know about the different types of bots, look at how to develop a simple chat bot and how bots can be used to automate business processes 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 needsWho This Book Is ForOur audience is programmers who know Python but need not be experts. They will however know a lot of the basics of the syntax and some basic experience with the command line. Ultimately, they're people who see themselves as busy and want to find cool hacks to automate all the mundane and time-consuming tasks they find themselves doing on a daily basis. What You Will Learn Implement 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 PandasIn DetailThis 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. A few chapters of this book will also help you gain knowledge on working with bots and computer vision. You will learn how to build bots for automating business use cases by integrating artificial intelligence. You'll also understand how Python is helpful in face detection and building a scanner of your own. 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. Style and approachRecipes to automate your life with Python will open your eyes to new ways to automate nearly anything you can achieve with a mouse and keyboard. In it, you'll learn how to construct Python scripts to scrape data, super-charge Excel, manipulate files, access websites APIs and much more. Our recipe-based approach will ensure that you know the purpose of a code block, and the steps you need to take to achieve that are presented in an easily digestible manner Put your life on autopilot and make your business processes efficient with the magic and power of Python! About This Book Learn how to construct Python scripts to scrape data, manipulate files, and access websites'APIs Get to know about the different types of bots, look at how to develop a simple chat bot and how bots can be used to automate business processes 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 needs Who This Book Is For Our audience is programmers who know Python but need not be experts. They will however know a lot of the basics of the syntax and some basic experience with the command line. Ultimately, they're people who see themselves as busy and want to find cool hacks to automate all the mundane and time-consuming tasks they find themselves doing on a daily basis. What You Will Learn Implement 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 In Detail This 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. A few chapters of this book will also help you gain knowledge on working with bots and computer vision. You will learn how to build bots for automating business use cases by integrating artificial intelligence. You'll also understand how Python is helpful in face detection and building a scanner of your own. 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. Style and approach Recipes to automate your life with Python will open your eyes to new ways to automate nearly anything you can achieve with a mouse and keyboard.In it, you'll learn how to construct Python scripts to scrape data, super-charge Excel, manipulate files, access websites APIs and much more. Our recipe-based approach will ensure that you know the purpose of a code block, and the steps you need to take to achieve th

Leverage the power of Python design patterns to solve real-world problems in software architecture and design

About This Book

• Understand the structural, creational, and behavioral Python design patterns
• Get to know the context and application of design patterns to solve real-world problems in software architecture, design, and application development
• Get practical exposure through sample implementations in Python v3.5 for the design patterns featured

Who This Book Is For

This book is for Software architects and Python application developers who are passionate about software design. It will be very useful to engineers with beginner level proficiency in Python and who love to work with Python 3.5

What You Will Learn

• Enhance your skills to create better software architecture
• Understand proven solutions to commonly occurring design issues
• Explore the design principles that form the basis of software design, such as loose coupling, the Hollywood principle and the Open Close principle among others
• Delve into the object-oriented programming concepts and find out how they are used in software applications
• Develop an understanding of Creational Design Patterns and the different object creation methods that help you solve issues in software development
• Use Structural Design Patterns and find out how objects and classes interact to build larger applications
• Focus on the interaction between objects with the command and observer patterns
• Improve the productivity and code base of your application using Python design patterns

In Detail

With the increasing focus on optimized software architecture and design it is important that software architects think about optimizations in object creation, code structure, and interaction between objects at the architecture or design level. This makes sure that the cost of software maintenance is low and code can be easily reused or is adaptable to change. The key to this is reusability and low maintenance in design patterns.

Building on the success of the previous edition, Learning Python Design Patterns, Second Edition will help you implement real-world scenarios with Python's latest release, Python v3.5.

We start by introducing design patterns from the Python perspective. As you progress through the book, you will learn about Singleton patterns, Factory patterns, and Facade patterns in detail. After this, we'll look at how to control object access with proxy patterns. It also covers observer patterns, command patterns, and compound patterns.

By the end of the book, you will have enhanced your professional abilities in software architecture, design, and development.

Style and approach

This is an easy-to-follow guide to design patterns with hands-on examples of real-world scenarios and their implementation in Python v3.5. Each topic is explained and placed in context, and for the more inquisitive, there are more details on the concepts used.

Leverage the power of Python design patterns to solve real-world problems in software architecture and designAbout This Book Understand the structural, creational, and behavioral Python design patterns Get to know the context and application of design patterns to solve real-world problems in software architecture, design, and application development Get practical exposure through sample implementations in Python v3.5 for the design patterns featuredWho This Book Is ForThis book is for Software architects and Python application developers who are passionate about software design. It will be very useful to engineers with beginner level proficiency in Python and who love to work with Python 3.5What You Will Learn Enhance your skills to create better software architecture Understand proven solutions to commonly occurring design issues Explore the design principles that form the basis of software design, such as loose coupling, the Hollywood principle and the Open Close principle among others Delve into the object-oriented programming concepts and find out how they are used in software applications Develop an understanding of Creational Design Patterns and the different object creation methods that help you solve issues in software development Use Structural Design Patterns and find out how objects and classes interact to build larger applications Focus on the interaction between objects with the command and observer patterns Improve the productivity and code base of your application using Python design patternsIn DetailWith the increasing focus on optimized software architecture and design it is important that software architects think about optimizations in object creation, code structure, and interaction between objects at the architecture or design level. This makes sure that the cost of software maintenance is low and code can be easily reused or is adaptable to change. The key to this is reusability and low maintenance in design patterns. Building on the success of the previous edition, Learning Python Design Patterns, Second Edition will help you implement real-world scenarios with Python's latest release, Python v3.5. We start by introducing design patterns from the Python perspective. As you progress through the book, you will learn about Singleton patterns, Factory patterns, and Facade patterns in detail. After this, we'll look at how to control object access with proxy patterns. It also covers observer patterns, command patterns, and compound patterns. By the end of the book, you will have enhanced your professional abilities in software architecture, design, and development. Style and approachThis is an easy-to-follow guide to design patterns with hands-on examples of real-world scenarios and their implementation in Python v3.5. Each topic is explained and placed in context, and for the more inquisitive, there are more details on the concepts used Leverage the power of Python design patterns to solve real-world problems in software architecture and designKey Features[•] Understand the structural, creational, and behavioral Python design patterns[•] Get to know the context and application of design patterns to solve real-world problems in software architecture, design, and application development[•] Get practical exposure through sample implementations in Python v3.5 for the design patterns featuredBook DescriptionWith the increasing focus on optimized software architecture and design it is important that software architects think about optimizations in object creation, code structure, and interaction between objects at the architecture or design level. This makes sure that the cost of software maintenance is low and code can be easily reused or is adaptable to change. The key to this is reusability and low maintenance in design patterns. Building on the success of the previous edition, Learning Python Design Patterns, Second Edition will help you implement real-world scenarios with Python's latest release, Python v3.5. We start by introducing design patterns from the Python perspective. As you progress through the book, you will learn about Singleton patterns, Factory patterns, and Façade patterns in detail. After this, we'll look at how to control object access with proxy patterns. It also covers observer patterns, command patterns, and compound patterns. By the end of the book, you will have enhanced your professional abilities in software architecture, design, and development. What you will learn[•] Enhance your skills to create better software architecture[•] Understand proven solutions to commonly occurring design issues[•] Explore the design principles that form the basis of software design, such as loose coupling, the Hollywood principle and the Open Close principle among others[•] Delve into the object-oriented programming concepts and find out how they are used in software applications[•] Develop an understanding of Creational Design Patterns and the different object creation methods that help you solve issues in software development[•] Use Structural Design Patterns and find out how objects and classes interact to build larger applications[•] Focus on the interaction between objects with the command and observer patterns[•] Improve the productivity and code base of your application using Python design patternsWho this book is forThis book is for Software architects and Python application developers who are passionate about software design. It will be very useful to engineers with beginner level proficiency in Python and who love to work with Python 3.5 Put your life on autopilot and make your business processes efficient with the magic and power of Python! About This Book Learn how to construct Python scripts to scrape data, manipulate files, and access websites' APIs Get to know about the different types of bots, look at how to develop a simple chat bot and how bots can be used to automate business processes 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 needs Who This Book Is For Our audience is programmers who know Python but need not be experts. They will however know a lot of the basics of the syntax and some basic experience with the command line. Ultimately, they're people who see themselves as busy and want to find cool hacks to automate all the mundane and time-consuming tasks they find themselves doing on a daily basis. What You Will Learn Implement 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 In Detail This 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. A few chapters of this book will also help you gain knowledge on working with .. This book is aimed at novice developers who want to gain insights into building RESTful services and improve productivity, as well as for advanced developers who want to delve into more complicated topics.