Jython Essentials

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The animal on the cover of Jython Essentials is a bank vole. Voles are small rodents related to lemmings. Different species can be found all over the world, though the bank vole is specific to Europe and Asia.

Voles range in length from 3.5 to 7 inches. They have rounded bodies with gray or brown fur and beige undersides. Bank voles have blunt muzzles, small eyes and ears, and short tails. They feed on buds, leaves, fruit, and some insects. Most bank voles live in the woods, making their nests under logs, in tree roots, or underground. Other vole species burrow underground in extensive tunneling systems, rarely coming above ground.

Voles live up to 18 months, though this time is often cut short, as other animals frequently prey upon them.

Linley Dolby was the production editor and proofreader, and Audrey Doyle was the copyeditor, for Jython Essentials. Sarah Sherman, Darren Kelly, and Claire Cloutier provided quality control. Tom Dinse wrote the index.

Emma Colby designed the cover of this book, based on a series design by Edie Freedman. The cover image is a 19th-century engraving from the Dover Pictorial Archive. Emma Colby produced the cover layout with QuarkXPress 4.1 using Adobe’s ITC Garamond font.

Melanie Wang designed the interior ...