AutomateTheBoringStuff.Ch13 package

Subpackages

• AutomateTheBoringStuff.Ch13.Projects package
  • Submodules
  • AutomateTheBoringStuff.Ch13.Projects.P1_encryptPDFparanoia module
  • AutomateTheBoringStuff.Ch13.Projects.P2_decryptPDFparanoia module
  • AutomateTheBoringStuff.Ch13.Projects.P3_invitations module
  • AutomateTheBoringStuff.Ch13.Projects.P4_PDFbreaker module
  • Module contents

Submodules

AutomateTheBoringStuff.Ch13.P1_readPDF module

Read PDF

This program uses PyPDF4 to read PDF files.

Note

• Example PDFs can be downloaded from http://nostarch.com/automatestuff/
• Book uses PyPDF2; I’m an overachiever that uses PyPDF4

AutomateTheBoringStuff.Ch13.P1_readPDF.main()

AutomateTheBoringStuff.Ch13.P2_writePDF module

Write PDF

This program uses PyPDF4 to write PDF documents.

Note

• Example PDFs can be downloaded from http://nostarch.com/automatestuff/
• Book uses PyPDF2; I’m an overachiever that uses PyPDF4

AutomateTheBoringStuff.Ch13.P2_writePDF.main()

AutomateTheBoringStuff.Ch13.P3_combinePDFs module

Combine PDFs

Combines all the PDFs in the current working directory into a single PDF.

Note

• Example PDFs can be downloaded from http://nostarch.com/automatestuff/
• Book uses PyPDF2; I’m an overachiever that uses PyPDF4

AutomateTheBoringStuff.Ch13.P3_combinePDFs.main()

AutomateTheBoringStuff.Ch13.P4_readWord module

Read Word

This program uses docx to read Word documents.

AutomateTheBoringStuff.Ch13.P4_readWord.main()

AutomateTheBoringStuff.Ch13.P5_readDocx module

Read docx

Accepts a filename of a .docx file and returns a single string value of its text.

Note

• Example .docx files can be downloaded from http://nostarch.com/automatestuff/

AutomateTheBoringStuff.Ch13.P5_readDocx.getText(filename: str) → str

Get text

Gets text from a given .docx file.

Parameters:filename – Path to .docx file to get text from. Returns:String with all document text.

AutomateTheBoringStuff.Ch13.P6_writeWord module

Write Word

This program uses docx to write Word documents.

Note

• Example files can be downloaded from http://nostarch.com/automatestuff/

AutomateTheBoringStuff.Ch13.P6_writeWord.main()

Module contents