Sam Washington currently works at University College London as a member
of its Learning and Teaching Applications team, developing and supporting the
University's Moodle virtual learning environment, its wikis and blogs, and its
online media services. Prior to this, he was a system administrator for UCL's several
museums. He has working experience of managing the demands of varied web
applications, and deploying and supporting Windows, Linux, and TCP/IP networks.
He has been using Python for professional and personal projects for over 7 years.
I would like to thank the team at Packt for their encouragement and
input throughout this project, especially Rebecca, Rohit, Saurabh,
Trishla, and Akshay. I would also like to thank the reviewers for
all their insights and corrections, Anhad Jai Singh, Ben Tasker,
Grzegorz Gwóźdź, Ilja Zegars, Tom Stephens, Vishrut Mehta,
Konstantin Manchev, and Andrew Armitage. I would like to express
my immense respect and gratitude to the entire Python community
for creating such a great programming language and ecosystem, and
thanks to Faruque for giving me this opportunity to give a little in
return. And Christina, thank you for still being here. You can have
me back now.