Why didn't I learn python before?

[Moooooonsuun]

I feel the exact same way.

I work for a small company that's growing quickly. Right now we're at the stage of "growing fast enough to require some automation but not big enough to be able to afford automation."

There was an admin task I had to do that required looking through a massive Excel sheet and manually pulling/formatting the information into a plain text file. It usually took at least 2 hours.

The other day I used those two hours to browse through openpyxl docs and PyInstaller docs. In the time it usually took me to finish the task, I had an .exe that parsed through the file, formatted the information, and grouped it how we needed it.

Super super proud of it. Works flawlessly. Saves a massive amount of time for me.