By Al Sweigart. Over 500,000 copies sold. Free to read under a CC license .
"The best part of programming is the triumph of seeing the machine do something useful. Automate the Boring Stuff with Python frames all of programming as these small triumphs; it makes the boring fun." - Hilary Mason , Data Scientist and Founder of Fast Forward Labs
"I'm having a lot of fun breaking things and then putting them back together, and just remembering the joy of turning a set of instructions into something useful and fun, like I did when I was a kid." - Wil Wheaton , WilWheaton.net