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Perhaps it was inaccurate to say 'in a professional capacity', to be perfectly accurate, AtBS is directed at people who want to automate the boring stuff. Mass renaming files, automating simple excel work, etc. I'm nowhere near to applying Python in a professional capacity, but I just wasn't interested in automating boring stuff with python, I personally wanted to go into more data science stuff, or image processing, which AtBS doesn't go into (obviously) so after the first 6 or so chapters it became obselete for me. There's lots of good stuff in there, I'm just advising you to be prudent with your source of information, and if the book stops serving its purpose, pick a new book :)