December 2025
Beginner
368 pages
7h 49m
English
Content preview from Python Automation For Dummies
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Index
Numerics
*.tmp, 96–98
+operator, 48
=operator, 48
A
- absolute versus relative paths, 72–73
- Activity Bar, in VS Code, 17–18
add_content()function, 163, 167, 172- Advanced Python Scheduler. See
APSchedulermodule - Amazon Simple Email Service, 236
- Amazon Web Services (AWS) Secrets Manager, 184
- ampersand (
&) forand, 58 - angle brackets, 153
- anonymous functions, 137
- APIs (application programming interfaces), 9, 229, 243, 329
- accessing free AI through, 277–282
- acquiring API keys and modules, 243–244
- creating
.gitignorefile, 184–185 - getting Instagram API access, 251
- interacting with, 181–196
- making API requests, 191–193
- obtaining API keys, 181–182
- other ways to secure API keys, 184
- parsing API responses, 193–194
- Representational State Transfer (REST) APIs, 190–194
- reviewing complete REST API script, 194–196
- safely storing API keys, 182–185
- using API key in script, 185
- See also JavaScript Object Notation (JSON)
- apostrophes, 36, 39
- Apple Intelligence, 2
- Apple M series, 12
- Apple Safari, 197, 199–200
- application programming interfaces (APIs). See APIs
APSchedulermodule, 265–270- arithmetic and string operators, 47–48
- array, 39
- artificial intelligence (AI), 2, 42, 196, 217, 241, 270
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