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  • automatically move files
  • Open youtube whenever a tuber uploads a new video
  • calculate compounding interest
• REGEX IS BACK NOOOOOO
• “Regular Expressions, often shortened as regex, are a sequence of characters used to check whether a pattern exists in a given text (string) or not”- from article
• in python, to use regex you need the re module import re
• the match() function checks a pattern and input. If they match it returns a match obj. if it does not it returns None.
• Shutil handles high level file management like copying
• it has:
  • a copy() function that can copy files
  • a copytree() function that can, you guessed it, copy trees
  • a which() function scans for certain file names