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
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
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.)
October 2001, July 2006, March 2009