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Python Interviews

You're reading from Python Interviews Discussions with Python Experts

Product type Paperback

Published in Feb 2018

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781788399081

Length 366 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Python

Concepts

Soft Skills

Author (1):

Michael Driscoll

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Table of Contents (22) Chapters

Preface

1. Brett Cannon FREE CHAPTER

2. Steve Holden

3. Carol Willing

4. Glyph Lefkowitz

5. Doug Hellmann

6. Massimo Di Pierro

7. Alex Martelli

8. Marc-André Lemburg

9. Barry Warsaw

10. Jessica McKellar

11. Tarek Ziadé

12. Sebastian Raschka

13. Wesley Chun

14. Steven Lott

15. Oliver Schoenborn

16. Al Sweigart

17. Luciano Ramalho

18. Nick Coghlan

19. Mike Bayer

20. Jake Vanderplas

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Chapter 18. Nick Coghlan

Nick Coghlan

Nick Coghlan is an Australian software developer and systems architect. His past roles include software engineer at Boeing Australia and senior software engineer at Red Hat Asia Pacific, a provider of open source solutions. Nick is a CPython core developer and BDFL-delegate for Python packaging interoperability standards. He is a founding member of the Python Software Foundation (PSF)'s Python Packaging Working Group, and the founder of the PyCon Australia Education Seminar. Over the past 20 years, Nick has contributed to a range of open source systems and software projects.

Photo credits of Nick Coghlan: © Kushal Das
Discussion themes: core developers, PEPs, learning Python.
Catch up with Nick Coghlan here: @ncoghlan_dev

Mike Driscoll: What made you decide to become a computer programmer?

Nick Coghlan: Originally, I just did programming as a plaything as a kid. We had the good old BASIC programming book for the Apple IIe.

It wasn't until...

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Authors (1)

Michael Driscoll

Michael Driscoll

Mike Driscoll has been programming in Python since 2006. He enjoys writing about Python in his blog, The Mouse Vs. The Python. He has coauthored the Core Python refcard for DZone. He has also worked as a technical reviewer for Python 3 Object Oriented Programming, Python 2.6 Graphics Cookbook, Tkinter GUI Application Development Hotshot, and several other books. Mike is the author of the following: • Python 101 • Python 201: Intermediate Python • wxPython Recipes • Python Interviews • ReportLab: PDF Processing in Python (coming summer 2018

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