Chapter 4. Glyph Lefkowitz

Glyph Lefkowitz is an American software engineer who has worked on numerous open source projects. Previous roles include senior software engineer at Apple, and today he works at Pilot.com, a bookkeeping service for start-ups. Glyph is the original founder of Twisted, a network programming framework written in Python. He continues to maintain Twisted and play an active role in the Twisted community. In 2009, Glyph was made a fellow of the Python Software Foundation (PSF). The PSF awarded Glyph its Community Service Award for contributions to the Python language in 2017.

Discussion themes: v2.7/v3.x, Python's future, diversity.

Catch up with Glyph Lefkowitz here: @glyph

Mike Driscoll: So how did you end up becoming a programmer?

Glyph Lefkowitz: Well, my programming path was somewhat circuitous. I started off programming as a kid, but I do not have the stereotypical story of learning BASIC, then Perl. There wasn't a linear progression, or...