Programming Python, Third Edition By Mark Lutz
August 2006
Pages: 1596

Cover | Table of Contents | Colophon

---

Colophon

About the Author
Mark Lutz is the world leader in Python training, the author of Python's earliest and best-selling texts, and a pioneering figure in the Python community.
Mark is also the author of the O'Reilly book Python Pocket Reference, and coauthor of Learning Python, all currently in second or third editions. Involved with Python since 1992, he started writing Python books in 1995 and began teaching Python classes in 1997. As of mid-2006, he has instructed more than 170 Python training sessions.
In addition, he holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in computer science from the University of Wisconsin, and over the last two decades has worked on compilers, programming tools, scripting applications, and assorted client/server systems.
Whenever Mark gets a break from spreading the Python word, he leads an ordinary, average life in Colorado. Mark can be reached by email at lutz@rmi.net, or on the Web at http://www.rmi.net/~lutz.
Colophon
The animal on the cover of Programming Python is an African rock python, one of approximately 18 species of python. Pythons are nonvenomous constrictor snakes that live in tropical regions of Africa, Asia, Australia, and some Pacific Islands. Pythons live mainly on the ground, but they are also excellent swimmers and climbers. Both male and female pythons retain vestiges of their ancestral hind legs. The male python uses these vestiges, or spurs, when courting a female.
The python kills its prey by suffocation. While the snake's sharp teeth grip and hold the prey in place, the python's long body coils around its victim's chest, constricting tighter each time it breathes out. They feed primarily on mammals and birds. Python attacks on humans are extremely rare.
The cover image is a 19th-century engraving from the Dover Pictorial Archive. The cover font is Adobe ITC Garamond. The text font is Linotype Birka; the heading font is Adobe Myriad Condensed; and the code font is LucasFont's TheSans Mono Condensed.

Return to Programming Python