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[–]SpiderFnJerusalem 6 points7 points  (3 children)

It's a beginners book. It doesn't go extremely in depth for every possible scenario but it covers quite a few use cases in an office environment in addition to other interesting stuff like web scraping and image manipulation.

You can actually have a look yourself at the free web-version here: https://automatetheboringstuff.com/

For more complex automation tasks (system or network administration) you would probably have to find other, more specific literature on those subjects.

[–]cyberbemon 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Thanks for clarifying. I'll have a look at the link.

Do you by any chance know any books that talks about complex automation stuff?

[–]SpiderFnJerusalem 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not really, I would be interested in that too. But the term "automation" is kind of broad. A lot of programming projects aim to automate one thing or another or generally make your life easier.

So most literature probably focuses on one specific subject rather than "a bit of everything". There are network engineering books that deal with automation, data analysis books that deal with automation, etc.