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I Tried 8 Python Libraries Nobody Talks About — 4 Changed How I Code Forever
These libraries rewired how I think about coding efficiency.
Last winter, I was stuck in what I call “automation paralysis.”
Every task I touched screamed for a script: renaming files, cleaning CSVs, and monitoring logs. But I was spending hours writing boilerplate code that felt… boring.
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So one weekend, I decided to hunt for Python libraries that make automation feel magical. Not the usual suspects like pandas, os, or requests, I wanted the weird, the underrated, the unfair advantages.
Eight libraries later, I realized something: four of them didn’t just save me time, they changed how I think about programming.
Here’s what I found.
1. watchdog — Automation That Watches Your Files Like a Hawk
I stumbled upon watchdog while building a script that cleaned screenshots from my desktop. Instead of rerunning it every time, I wanted it to trigger automatically whenever I dropped a new file.
