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Doug Hellmann
Doug Hellmann is a Senior Software Engineer at Racemi and Technical Editor for Python Magazine. He has been programming in Python since version 1.4, and prior to Python worked mostly with C on a variety of Unix and non-Unix platforms. He has worked on...

Anthony Baxter
Anthony Baxter has been involved in the open source community for more than a decade, largely working in Python and, in the last few years, on Python. Anthony is currently also the release manager for Python. This is much less glamorous than you might...

Mark Lutz
Mark Lutz is an independent Python trainer, writer, and software developer, and is one of the pioneering figures in the Python community.

A. M. Kuchling
A. M. Kuchling has 11 years of experience as a software developer and is a long-time member of the Python development community. Some of his Python-related work includes writing and maintaining several standard library modules, writing a series of What...

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