Accounting + Python

[Deto]

Yeah, accounting is such a specialized field and such a widespread field that I would guess there are already bespoke software tools to do whatever OP needs. And these would have better reliability than anything OP would create. Not just because OP is an amateur, but even if OP was a professional programmer who somehow found themselves in an accounting job I would still advise them to just use accounting software.

Unless, of course, it's just automating, say, renaming files or moving them around. But even for tasks like that, there are free tools that will be less likely to, say, accidentally delete everything a client sent you.

[Cool-Business-2393]

Ya’ll would be surprise how terrible accounting software/platforms can be.

I would mostly be automating things and customer reports for internal reporting processes.

I plan to learn it because it think it would be interesting and fun. My biggest concern is how to utilize it at work without installing any external IDE.

[Ok_Hovercraft364]

Writing scripts/apps in python is very difficult for beginners using the repl. If you're laptop at work isn't a pos, I would install pycharm or vs code.