If you’re comfortable in Excel, but have hit a wall - slow files, broken formulas, hours spent on repetitive tasks - this book  offers a way forward. Tracy Stephens shows you how to take the work you already do in spreadsheets and make it faster, smarter, and more powerful with Python. The book starts from setting up your environment and getting comfortable with Python through short, Excel-inspired exercises. From there, readers gradually move into writing scripts that automate manual work, structure their data, and generate consistent results. No prior programming knowledge is required.

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Author: Tracy Stephens
Publisher: No Starch Press
Date: September 2025
Pages: 344
ISBN: 978-1718503984
Print: 1718503989
Kindle: B0DQNQLKDL
Audience: Excel users interested in Python
Level: Introductory/Intermediate
Category: Python

Topics covered:

• Translate spreadsheet logic into Python code
• Use pandas to clean, reshape, and filter data
• Automate reports you’d normally build by hand
• Read and write Excel files directly from Python
• Connect to databases and APIs
• Create professional visualizations with Plotly and Dash
• Organize code into sharable modules and write simple tests

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