Acknowledgments
Acknowledgments for the Second Edition
Reviewers and Contributors
Shannon -jj Behrens (lead reviewer)
Michael Santos (lead reviewer)
Rick Kwan
Lindell Aldermann (
co-author
of the new Unicode section in Chapter 6)
Wai-Yip Tung (co-author of the Unicode example in Chapter 20)
Eric Foster-Johnson (co-author of
Beginning
Python
)
Alex Martelli (editor of
Python Cookbook
and author of
Python in a Nutshell
)
Larry Rosenstein
Jim Orosz
Krishna Srinivasan
Chuck Kung
Inspiration
My wonderful children and pet hamster.
Production
Mark Taub and Debra Williams-Cauley (Acquisitions Editors)
Lara Wysong (Project Editor)
John Fuller (Managing Editor)
Sam RC (Project Manager at International Typesetting and Composition)
Acknowledgements for the First Edition
Reviewers and Contributors
Guido van Rossum (creator of the Python language)
Dowson Tong
James C. Ahlstrom (co-author of
Internet Programming with Python
)
S. Candelaria de Ram
Cay S. Horstmann (co-author of
Core
Java
and
Core
JavaServer
Faces
)
Michael Santos
Greg Ward (creator of
distutils
package and its documentation)
Vincent C. Rubino
Martijn Faassen
Emile van Sebille
Raymond Tsai
Albert L. Anders (co-author of MT Programming chapter)
Fredrik Lundh (author of
Python Standard Library
)
Cameron Laird
Fred L. Drake, Jr. (co-author of
Python & XML
and editor of the official Python documentation)
Jeremy Hylton
Steve Yoshimoto
Aahz Maruch (author of
Python for Dummies
)
Jeffrey E. F. Friedl (author of
Mastering Regular Expressions
)
Pieter Claerhout
Catriona (Kate) Johnston
David Ascher (co-author of
Learning Python
and editor of
Python Cookbook
)
Reg Charney
Christian Tismer (creator of Stackless Python)
Jason Stillwell
and my students at UC Santa Cruz Extension
Inspiration
James P. Prior (my high school programming teacher)
Louise Moser and P. Michael Melliar-Smith (my graduate thesis advisors at UCSB)
Alan Parsons, Eric Woolfson, Andrew Powell, Ian Bairnson, Stuart Elliott, David Paton, all other Project
participants
, and fellow Projectologists and Roadkillers (for all the music, support, and good times)
I would also like to thank my family,
friends
and the Lord above, who have kept me safe and sane during this crazy period of late nights and abandonment. And finally, I would like give a big thanks to all those who believed in me (you know who you are!)I couldn't have done it without you. Those who didn't... well, you know what you can do!
:-
)
Finally, I would like to thank you, my readers, and the Python community at large. I am excited at the prospect of teaching you Python and hope that you enjoy your
travels
with me, on our second journey.
Wesley J. Chun
Silicon Valley, CA
(It's not as much a place as it is a state of
sanity
.)
July 2006
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