Chapter 7. Alex Martelli

Alex Martelli is an Italian computer engineer. He is the author of the first two editions of Python in a Nutshell and the co-author of the first two editions of Python Cookbook and the third edition of Python in a Nutshell. Alex is a fellow of the Python Software Foundation (PSF) and the winner of both the 2002 Activators' Choice Award and the 2006 Frank Willison Memorial Award for contributions to the Python community. Since 2005, he has worked for Google, and today he is a senior staff engineer and tech lead of the team providing community support for Google Cloud Platform. Alex is an active contributor to Stack Overflow and a frequent speaker at technical conferences.

Discussion themes: Python books, v2.7/v3.x, Python at Google.

Catch up with Alex Martelli here: @aleaxi

Mike Driscoll: Could you give us a little background information about yourself?

Alex Martelli: I graduated in electrical engineering back in my home country, Italy. I then started...