About the reviewers

Alex Martelli is an Italian-born computer engineer, and Fellow and Core Committer of the Python Software Foundation. For over 15 years now, he has lived and worked in Silicon Valley, currently as Tech Lead for "long tail" community support for Google Cloud Platform.

Alex holds a Laurea (Master's degree) in Electrical Engineering from Bologna University; he is the author of Python in a Nutshell (co-author, in the current 3rd edition), co-editor of the Python Cookbook's first two editions, and has written many other (mostly Python-related) materials, including book chapters, interviews, and many tech talks. Check out https://www.google.com/search?q=alex+martelli, especially the Videos tab thereof.

Alex won the 2002 Activators' Choice Award, and the 2006 Frank Willison award for outstanding contributions to the Python community.

Alex has taught courses on programming, development methods, object-oriented design, cloud computing, and numerical computing, at Ferrara University and other universities and schools. Alex was also the keynote speaker for the 2008 SciPy Conference, and for many editions of Pycon APAC and Pycon Italia conferences.

Anna Martelli Ravenscroft is an experienced speaker and trainer, with a perse background from bus driving to bridge, disaster preparedness to cognitive science. A frequent track chair, program committee member, and speaker at Python and Open Source conferences, Anna also frequently provides technical reviewing for Python books. She co-edited the 2nd edition of the Python Cookbook and co-authored the 3rd edition of Python in a Nutshell. Anna is a Fellow of the Python Software Foundation and won a Frank Willison Memorial Award for her contributions to Python.