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That’s a great goal 🚀 — Python is one of the best choices for Windows automation because it has

libraries for almost every layer (files, GUIs, APIs, browsers, etc.). Let’s build you a roadmap step by
step.

🔹 Step 1: Core Python Skills (Foundation)

Before jumping into automation, make sure you’re comfortable with:

 Data types & collections (lists, dicts, sets, tuples)

 Functions & OOP

 File handling (read/write, paths)

 Error handling (try/except/finally)

 Virtual environments & pip (to manage libraries)

🔹 Step 2: Automating Windows Files & Processes

Start with basic OS-level automation.


📦 Libraries:

 os → navigate directories, environment variables

 shutil → copy, move, delete files

 pathlib → modern path handling

 subprocess → run Windows commands/programs

 psutil → monitor processes, CPU, memory

✅ Example:

import os, shutil

# Create a folder and move a file

os.makedirs("backup", exist_ok=True)

shutil.move("report.txt", "backup/report.txt")

🔹 Step 3: GUI Automation (Keyboard, Mouse, Screen)

📦 Libraries:

 pyautogui → simulate mouse & keyboard

 keyboard → low-level keyboard automation

 mouse → control mouse clicks & movements


 pillow (PIL) → take screenshots, image recognition

✅ Example:

import pyautogui

pyautogui.moveTo(100, 200, duration=1)

pyautogui.click()

pyautogui.typewrite("Hello World!", interval=0.1)

🔹 Step 4: Windows-Specific Automation

📦 Libraries:

 pywin32 → control Windows apps (Excel, Word, Outlook, etc.) via COM

 autopy → mouse, keyboard, screen automation

 pywinauto → interact with Windows GUI apps programmatically

✅ Example (open Notepad & type):

from pywinauto import Application

app = Application().start("notepad.exe")

app.UntitledNotepad.Edit.type_keys("Hello, Windows automation!", with_spaces=True)

🔹 Step 5: Browser Automation (Web Tasks)

📦 Libraries:

 selenium → full browser automation (web testing, scraping, form-filling)

 playwright → modern, faster alternative to Selenium

 requests + beautifulsoup4 → lightweight scraping without browsers

✅ Example:

from selenium import webdriver

driver = webdriver.Chrome()

driver.get("https://example.com")

driver.find_element("name", "q").send_keys("Python automation\n")


🔹 Step 6: Office Automation

📦 Libraries:

 openpyxl → Excel automation

 python-docx → Word docs

 pypdf2 / pikepdf → PDF handling

 win32com.client → Outlook emails, Excel macros, etc.

✅ Example (Excel automation):

import openpyxl

wb = openpyxl.Workbook()

sheet = wb.active

sheet["A1"] = "Automation!"

wb.save("demo.xlsx")

🔹 Step 7: Scheduling & Workflows

 schedule → schedule tasks like cron

 APScheduler → advanced scheduling

 Windows Task Scheduler → run Python scripts automatically

✅ Example:

import schedule, time

def job():

print("Running automation task!")

schedule.every(10).seconds.do(job)

while True:

schedule.run_pending()

time.sleep(1)

🔹 Step 8: Advanced & Pro Stuff


 RPA (Robotic Process Automation): tagui, robotframework

 Database automation: sqlite3, pyodbc, sqlalchemy

 API automation: requests, httpx

 Cloud automation: boto3 (AWS), azure SDK, google-api-python-client

🔹 Step 9: Best Practices

 Learn logging (logging module) instead of just print

 Organize code into functions & classes

 Write reusable scripts (so you don’t repeat yourself)

 Use Git for version control

 Document your automation flows

✅ Roadmap to Proficiency

1. Weeks 1–2: Python basics + file automation

2. Weeks 3–4: GUI automation (pyautogui, pywinauto)

3. Month 2: Browser automation (selenium/playwright)

4. Month 3: Office automation (Excel, Outlook, PDFs)

5. Month 4+: Scheduling + APIs + advanced RPA

⚡ Pro tip: Start small — automate something boring you already do daily (like renaming files,
opening apps, or sending an email).

👉 Do you want me to create a learning project plan (like a sequence of 3–4 real automation projects,
each building on the previous one) so you can practice hands-on instead of just learning libraries?

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