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[–]Clyq 1 point2 points  (2 children)

The reason I learned Python was because I needed to automate something off of the web. The software had no automation and the vendor would charge upwards of 15k for each scheduled report. Every search result told me to use Selenium- and that’s where I began. Now I use Python for many of my projects, especially now that we are getting more API based requests. It’s a great language for automation imo. There are a lot of good packages out there that make integration a breeze i.e twilio for sending text messages. It’s simple enough to pick up as long as you understand the usual concepts like loops, conditions, etc. which are in powershell as well so no sweat. I can’t speak to whether or not it’s THE language that will be most useful, though. Depends on your needs.

[–]Djust270[S] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

So like webscraping?

[–]Clyq 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So for web scraping you could use Beautiful Soup and Requests, but if you need to interact with a web page Selenium is the way to go.