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by rantingdemon 24 days ago
This is just an advertisement for a book. And a terrible advertisement. No sample chapters to evaluate the book.
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Yes it’s an add for a book but it does provide a sample chapter:

https://nostarch.com/download/samples/automate-excel-with-py...

Yeah, a $50 book (physical) or $40 ebook
With normal inflation, a $30 O'Reilly book in the year 2000 would be about $58 today.
We all have to start somewhere. It does not invalidate your point that it is an advert, but I can't categorically state it is terrible.