Thread by @driscollis

A lot of people use #Python for automation. Let's talk about some of the packages you can use this task!

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PyAutoGUI is useful if you need to control the mouse and keyboard on your PC with Python

You can use PyAutoGUI to fill out forms, take screenshots and much more

pyautogui.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

Pywinauto is also for controlling the mouse and keyboard, but is specifically targeted at Windows

pywinauto.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

If you need to automate a web browser, then you have several tools you can use with #Python:

🐍 Selenium
🐍 Splinter
🐍 Windmill
🐍 ScraPy (web crawler / scraping)
🐍 BeautifulSoup (web scraping)

For Test Automation with #Python you can use:

🐍 Robot Framework
🐍 Pytest
🐍 Lettuce

If you need to automate working with PDFs with Python, then you should check out the following packages:

🐍 ReportLab (creating PDFs)
🐍 borb (creating PDFs)
🐍 pdfrw (splitting, rotating, merging)
🐍 PyPDF2 - PyPDF4 (splitting, rotating)
🐍 PDFMiner - (PDF text extraction)

If you want to automate working with Excel files with Python, then check out the following packages:

🐍 OpenPyXL
🐍 xlwings
🐍 PyXLL
🐍 XslxWriter

I hope you enjoyed learning about just some of the neat Python packages you can use to help you automate your work life.

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