Automation

Python Regular Expressions Tutorial

Regex are used to match patterns in strings, here are some examples

Shutil

This library is used to deal with files, with high level operations like copying and archiving, here is a list of some methods and their use:

Method	Description
copyfileobj(fsrc, fdst[, length])	Copy the contents of the file-like object fsrc to the file-like object fdst
copyfile(src, dst, *, follow_symlinks=True)	Copy the contents (no metadata) of the file named src to a file named dst and return dst in the most efficient way possible
copymode(src, dst, *, follow_symlinks=True)	Copy the permission bits from src to dst
copystat(src, dst, *, follow_symlinks=True)	Copy the permission bits, last access time, last modification time, and flags from src to dst.
copy(src, dst, *, follow_symlinks=True)	Copies the file src to the file or directory dst

In order to use this library you will mostly need other libraries like glob, io, os, and sys, the resource article contains description with a higher level technical language.

Automation Ideas

The following link shows how Python can use libraries like watchdog to do automated processes like moving files from one pfolder to another and renaming them, or automatically open Youtube when a channel uploads new video. automation Ideas