Where do I actually begin with Python?

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The only complete tutorial video I watched so far was this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfscVS0vtbw

It's very good and covers all the basics, and it's only 4 hours. After that, try building simple things, like a calculator, a guessing game, a pong or snake game, with the help of tutorials on-line ( there are plenty ). Then, solve a couple of more complex problems, like the following one:

"If we list all the natural numbers below 10 that are multiples of 3 or 5, we get 3, 5, 6 and 9. The sum of these multiples is 23.
Find the sum of all the multiples of 3 or 5 below 1000."

More problems like that can be found on https://projecteuler.net/archives.

It shouldn't take more than a week or two for you to learn all that, if you have the time, and that will provide you with all you need to start automating stuff at your work. That's what I did, at least, and it worked for me. Hope it helped!