Learning Python

David Ascher holds a B.S. in physics and a Ph.D. in cognitive science, both from Brown University. David has taught courses about Python in universities, to corporations, and at conferences. He is the lead for Python projects at ActiveState, including Komodo, ActiveState's integrated development environment written mostly in Python. He also organized the Python track at the 1999 and 2000 O'Reilly Open Source Conventions, and was the program chair for the 10th International Python Conference. In addition, he co-wrote Learning Python (both editions) and serves as a director of the Python Software Foundation. Mark Lutz holds BS and MS degrees in computer science from the University of Wisconsin. He is an independent Python trainer, writer, and software developer, and is one of the primary figures in the Python community. Mark has been involved with Python since 1992, began teaching Python classes in 1997, and has instructed over 90 Python training sessions as of early 2003. He is the author of the O'Reilly books Programming Python and Python Pocket Reference (both in 2nd Editions), and co-author of Learning Python (both in 2nd Editions). In addition, over the last two decades, he has worked on compilers, programming tools, scripting applications, and assorted client/server systems.Lutz, Mark is the author of 'Learning Python ', published 2006 under ISBN 9781600330216 and ISBN 1600330215.