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Create a Python Tool That Generates Professional Excel Dashboards
Generate a professional sales dashboard in an Excel workbook with styled headers, a bar chart, and formatted number cells using the openpyxl library.
import openpyxl
from openpyxl.chart import BarChart, Reference
from openpyxl.styles import Font, PatternFill, Alignment, Border, Side
from openpyxl.utils import get_column_letter
def create_sales_dashboard(workbook_path: str) -> None:
"""Generate a professional sales dashboard in an Excel workbook."""
wb = op…Generate a Beautiful Folder Tree Visualization in Python
A Python utility that creates a visual tree of a directory structure, excluding common files, with configurable depth.
import os
from pathlib import Path
class FolderTree:
def __init__(self, root_path=".", ignore_list=None, max_depth=3):
self.root = Path(root_path)
self.ignore = set(ignore_list or [".git", "__pycache__", ".DS_Store"])
self.max_depth = max_depth
def generate(self):
tree…How to Create a Link Graph Visualization for Any Website in Python
A Python script that crawls a website's internal links, builds a directed graph of parent-child URL relationships, and prints the graph to the console.
import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
from collections import defaultdict
from urllib.parse import urljoin, urlparse
import sys
def get_links(url, max_links=20):
try:
response = requests.get(url, timeout=5)
soup = BeautifulSoup(response.text, 'html.parser')
base_url = f"{urlparse(u…Browse by section
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