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Automate the Boring Stuff with Python Workbook
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Automate the Boring Stuff with Python Workbook

by Al Sweigart
November 2025
Beginner to intermediate
256 pages
5h 58m
English
No Starch Press
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21MAKING GRAPHS AND MANIPULATING IMAGES

A picture is worth a thousand words, and your code can handle high-resolution image files just as it can any other form of data. The third-party Pillow package has several functions for editing images and drawing lines and text with the precision and speed of automated scripts. To generate line graphs, bar graphs, scatter plots, and pie charts, you can use Matplotlib, a popular library for making professional-looking graphs.

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