Python Automation For Dummies (For Dummies)
Friday, 09 January 2026

In this book Alan Simpson shows with simple explanations of how you can use Python to automatically wrangle data files, manage media files, create shortcuts, find and organize web data, and even analyze social media for trends. Readers will improve their skills, expand their productivity, and speed up the process of generating data-driven insights. They'll also learn to enhance their Python automations with AI, for workflows that are faster and smarter.

<ASIN:139437142X >

 

Author: Alan Simpson
Publisher: For Dummies
Date: December 2025
Pages: 368
ISBN: 978-1394371426
Print: 139437142X
Kindle: B0FYZPGP4J
Audience: Python developers
Level: Introductory/Intermediate
Category: Python

Topics covered:

  • Review the basics of Python coding and follow steps for automating all sorts of tasks
  • Manage large file sets, organize and analyze data, and speed up research processes
  • Automate scheduling and other time-consuming tasks—and optimize work with AI
  • Free up time and resources by automating routine work, so you can foucs on more important issues

For recommendations of Python books see Books for Pythonistas and Python Books For Beginners in our Programmer's Bookshelf section.

For more Book Watch just click.

Book Watch is I Programmer's listing of new books and is compiled using publishers' publicity material. It is not to be read as a review where we provide an independent assessment. Some, but by no means all, of the books in Book Watch are eventually reviewed.

To have new titles included in Book Watch contact  BookWatch@i-programmer.info

Follow @bookwatchiprog on Twitter or subscribe to I Programmer's Books RSS feed for each day's new addition to Book Watch and for new reviews.

 

 

Banner


Continuous Architecture In Practice (Addison-Wesley)

Author: Murat Erder, Pierre Pureur and Eoin Woods
Publisher: Addison-Wesley
Pages: 352
ISBN: 978-0136523567
Print: 0136523560
Kindle: ‎B08ZRTQGLJ
Audience: Software Architects
Rating: 3
Reviewer: Kay Ewbank

This book sets out the case for why software architecture is more important than ever, and in p [ ... ]



Murach's MySQL, 4th Edition

Author: Joel Murach
Publisher: Mike Murach
Pages: 652
ISBN: 978-1943873104
Print: B0CHMPQ3FC
Kindle: B0FBX3LBSG
Audience: MySQL developers
Rating: 5
Reviewer: Kay Ewbank

This is an updated edition of a longstanding popular title. The new edition adds a chapter on cloud computing and hosting MyS [ ... ]


More Reviews