Automation With Python

 

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Hi {{First name}},

Do you want to automate things on your computer?

by Ashim Dahal on March 12

If you are learning python from the basics with our guidance, there’s a good chance that you might have wanted to automate some of the boring and tedious tasks you do everyday with python. 

The first step to automation is to learn the extreme basics of any programming language( preferred python because of its human readable syntax). The next step of automation is to identify your problem and know what you want to do.

Usually, the automation tasks include things like, renaming files and folders (defragmentation/ you need to work with the OS itself), preparing gradesheets/results ( you need to work with huge amounts of data), face detection/digit recognition and what not.

Let's start our journey to automation by the simplest form: tinkering with the OS module  of python to do proper file management.

The OS module is preinstalled in python so all you need to do is import OS and you are set to go.

To do more cool things with the OS other than just importing it, you can watch these sets of videos explaining the functionalities of the OS or read the documentation itself.

Happy coding

Ashim Dahal

Together We Learn

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