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What's the language everyone recommends for automating spreadsheets and files with a script?

A programming language often used to automate work on a computer or serverA Python script can read three Markdown notes and write their titles into summary.csv. It runs on a local machine or server; an ordinary web page does not execute a local Python script by itself.

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Terminal

Turn three notes into one summary file

notes▤ product-plan.md▤ user-interviews.md▤ launch-checklist.md

summarize.py

1for file in Path("notes").glob("*.md"):

2 title = file.read_text().splitlines()[0]

3 rows.append([file.name, title])

4write_csv("summary.csv", rows)

Terminal

$ python summarize.py
Waiting to run…

How a script organizes several files

Choose the files：The script finds the .md files and reads their text.

Apply one rule：For example, it can use the first line of each note as a title.

Write the result：It creates summary.csv on the machine or server that ran it.

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