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I acknowledged numerous people in the preface of Learning Python, Fourth Edition,
less than a year ago; because that book is a precursor to this one, and because the set
is largely the same, I won’t repeat the list in its entirety here. In short, though, I’m
grateful to:
- O’Reilly, for promoting Python, and publishing “meaty” books in the Open Source
domain - The Python community, which has occupied sizeable portions of my world
since 1992 - The thousands of students who attended the 250 Python classes I’ve taught
since 1997
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