书名：Python技术手册（第4版，影印版）

作者：Alex Martelli, Anna Martelli Ravenscroft, Steve Holden, Paul McGuire 著

国内出版社：东南大学出版社

出版时间：2023年03月

页数：717

书号：978-7-5766-0715-4

原版书书名：Python in a Nutshell, 4th Edition

原版书出版商：O'Reilly Media

 

Alex Martelli is a member of the Python Software Foundation and works as Uber Tech Lead for Google, Inc. in Mountain View, California.Before joining Google, Alex spent eight years with IBM Research,winning three Outstanding Technical Achievement Awards.He won 13 as Senior Software Consultant at think3 inc, where he developed libraries, network protocols, GUI engines, event frameworks, and web access frontends. He won three more as a freelance consultant, working mostly for AB Strakt,a Python-centered software house in Goteborg, Sweden. Alex has also taught programming languages, development methods, and numerical computing at Ferrara University and other venues. Alex's proudest achievement is the articles that appeared in Bridge World(January/February 2000), which were hailed as giant steps toward solving
issues that had haunted contract-bridge theoreticians for decades.

 

 

 

Anna Martelli Ravenscroft is a PSF Fellow and winner of the 2013 Frank Willison Memorial Award for contributions to the Python community. She coauthored the second edition of the Python Cookbook and third edition of Python in a Nutshell. She has been a technical reviewer for many Python books and is a regular speaker and track chair at technical conferences. Anna lives in Silicon Valley with her husband Alex, two dogs, one cat, and several chickens.

 

 

 

Passionate about programming and community, Steve Holden has worked with computers since 1967 and started using Python at version 1.4 in 1995. He has since written about Python, created instructor-led training, delivered it to an international audience, and built 40 hours of video training for “reluctant Python users.” An Emeritus Fellow of the Python Software Foundation, Steve served as a director of the Foundation for eight years and as its chairman for three; he created PyCon, the Python community’s international conference series, and was presented with the 2007 Frank Willison Memorial Award for services to the Python community. He lives in Hastings, England, and works as Technical Architect for the UK Department for International Trade, where he is responsible for the systems that maintain and regulate the trading environment.

 

 

 

Paul McGuire has been programming for 40+ years, in languages ranging from FORTRAN to Pascal, PL/I, COBOL, Smalltalk, Java, C/C++/C#, and Tcl, settling on Python as his language of choice in 2001. He is a PSF Fellow, and is the author and maintainer of the popular pyparsing module, as well as littletable and plusminus. Paul authored the O’Reilly book Getting Started with Pyparsing, and has written and edited articles for Python Magazine. He has also spoken at PyCon, PyTexas, and at the Austin Python User’s Group, and is active on StackOverflow. Paul now lives in Austin, Texas, with his wife and dog, and works for Indeed as a Site Reliability Engineer, helping people get jobs!

 

 

The animal on the cover of Python in a Nutshell, fourth edition, is an African rock python (Python sebae), one of the six largest snake species in the world. They are native to sub-Saharan Africa, but can also be found in other parts of the world. They can live in a wide range of habitats from temperate forests and grasslands to tropical savanna and forests. While they live mainly on the ground, they are also excellent swimmers and climbers and like to live near areas with a permanent water source. Additionally, they can be found near human settlements due to the presence of rats, mice, and other vermin.
The average size of this species of python is between ten and thirteen feet. They have large, stout bodies covered in colored blotches and irregular stripes, varying in color between brown, olive, chestnut, and yellow, fading to white on their underside. African rock pythons have triangular heads with a brown spearhead shape on top, outlined in yellow.
Pythons are nonvenomous constrictor snakes that kill their prey by suffocation. While the snake’s sharp teeth grip and hold the prey in place, the python’s long body coils around its victim’s chest, constricting tighter each time it exhales. African rock pythons feed on a wide range of mammals and birds, such as rodents, lizards, vultures, fowl, dogs, and goats. Python attacks on humans are extremely rare and only occur when provoked.