Automate-the-Boring

My implementations of the chapter projects from Automate the Boring Stuff with Python.

Chapter 7 Projects:

1. Name: "Phone Number and Email Address Extractor"

   • Finds phone numbers and email addresses on the clipboard.

   • If the clipboard contains a web address, and only a web address, then instead of reading emails and phone numbers from the clipboard, it will instead scrape the webpage looking for either email addresses or phone numbers.

   • File: "pyperclip-regex.py"

   • My Tweaks: adding an automatic web-scraping method, and encapsulating all of the functionality inside of a class.

Chapter 8 Projects:

1. Name: "Generating Random Quiz Files"

   • Creates random quiz questions and their respective answer keys.

   • This program will take the number of students in a class (or the desired number of individual tests) and make a unique multiple-choice quiz for each. The current implementation is for testing state capitals, but can be generalized for any "zero sum" quiz, such as vocabulary for a unit or any other test where the answer choices besides the correct one for a given question don't matter (e.g. this would be a poor way to generate random math quizzes, unless one simply wanted to switch up the /order/ of questions and their answers and not randomize the selection of wrong answer choices as well.)

   • File: "quiz_gen.py"

   • My Tweaks: checking for the maximum number of unique quizzes, ensuring the quizzes are actually random, and replacing the string formatting %'s with .format().

2. Name: "Searching Directories using Regex"

   • This program will 1) take a string, 2) open every .txt file in a directory, 3) perform a regex search to find all (if any) instances of that string in the files, and 4) print matches to the screen (terminal).

   • File: "regex_search.py"

3. Name: "Multiclipboard"

   • Saves and loads pieces of text to the clipboard, tied to keywords for easy recall.

   • E.g.:

     • ./mcb.py save <keyword> - saves clipboard contents to keyword
     • ./mcb.py <keyword> - loads associated keyword's contents to clipboard
     • ./mcb.py list - lists all currently saved keywords
     • ./mcb.py delete <keyword> - delete keyword from list
     • ./mcb.py clear - delete all keywords from shelf

   • File: "mcb.py"

   • My Tweaks: added a "Delete" functionality which also checks if the key exists.

Chapter 9 Projects:

1. Name: "Zip-A-Folder"

   • Copies an entire folder and its contents into a .zip file, the name of which increments with each backup, e.g. "zipped_1" > "zipped_2".

   • File: "zipper.py"