Luciano Ramalho
卢西亚诺·拉马略(Luciano Ramalho)是Thoughtworks首席咨询师、Python软件基金会成员、巴西知名Python语言学习社区Python Brasil联合创始人。拥有25年Python编程经验,著有编程领域经典作品《流畅的Python》。
The animal on the cover of Fluent Python is a Namaqua sand lizard (Pedioplanis namaquensis), found throughout Namibia in arid savannah and semi-desert regions.
The Namaqua sand lizard has a black body with four white stripes running down its back, brown legs with white spots, a white belly, and a long, pinkish-brown tail. It is one of the fastest of the lizards active during the day and feeds on small insects. It inhabits sparsely vegetated sand gravel flats. Female Namaqua sand lizards lay between three to five eggs in November, and these lizards spends the rest of winter dormant in burrows that they dig near the base of bushes.
The current conservation status of the Namaqua sand lizard is of “Least Concern.” Many of the animals on O’Reilly covers are endangered; all of them are important to the world.