If you've ever had to spend hours renaming files or updating hundreds of spreadsheet cells, then you know what a chore is. And what if you instruct a computer to do this kind of work instead of you? The book will teach you how to use Python to write programs that can do in a matter of minutes what it used to take you hours of manual labor, and no programming experience is required of you. Once you have mastered the basics of programming, you can create Python programs that can easily perform various useful tasks in automatic mode.