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Python Interviews: Discussions with Python Experts
Mike Driscoll takes you on a journey talking to a hall-of-fame list of truly remarkable Python experts. You'll be inspired every time by their passion for the Python language, as they share with you their experiences, contributions, and careers in Python.
Key Features Hear from these key Python thinkers about the current status of Python, and where it's heading in the future Listen to their close thoughts on significant Python topics, such as Python's role in scientific computing, and machine learning Understand the direction of Python, and what needs to change for Python 4 Book DescriptionEach of these twenty Python Interviews can inspire and refresh your relationship with Python and the people who make Python what it is today. Let these interviews spark your own creativity, and discover how you also have the ability to make your mark on a thriving tech community. This book invites you to immerse in the Python landscape, and let these remarkable programmers show you how you too can connect and share with Python programmers around the world. Learn from their opinions, enjoy their stories, and use their tech tips.
Brett Cannon - former director of the PSF, Python core developer, led the migration to Python 3. Steve Holden - tireless Python promoter and former chairman and director of the PSF. Carol Willing - former director of the PSF and Python core developer, Project Jupyter Steering Council member. Nick Coghlan - founding member of the PSF's Packaging Working Group and Python core developer. Jessica McKellar - former director of the PSF and Python activist. Marc-André Lemburg - Python core developer and founding member of the PSF. Glyph Lefkowitz - founder of Twisted and fellow of the PSF Doug Hellmann - fellow of the PSF, creator of the Python Module of the Week blog, Python community member since 1998. Massimo Di Pierro - fellow of the PSF, data scientist and the inventor of web2py. Alex Martelli - fellow of the PSF and co-author of Python in a Nutshell. Barry Warsaw - fellow of the PSF, Python core developer since 1995, and original member of PythonLabs. Tarek Ziadé - founder of Afpy and author of Expert Python Programming. Sebastian Raschka - data scientist and author of Python Machine Learning. Wesley Chun - fellow of the PSF and author of the Core Python Programming books. Steven Lott - Python blogger and author of Python for Secret Agents. Oliver Schoenborn - author of Pypubsub and wxPython mailing list contributor. Al Sweigart - bestselling author of Automate the Boring Stuff with Python and creator of the Python modules Pyperclip and PyAutoGUI. Luciano Ramalho - fellow of the PSF and the author of Fluent Python. Mike Bayer - fellow of the PSF, creator of open source libraries including SQLAlchemy. Jake Vanderplas - data scientist and author of Python Data Science Handbook. What you will learn How successful programmers think The history of Python Insights into the minds of the Python core team Trends in Python programming Table of Contents Brett Cannon Steve Holden Carol Willing Glyph Lefkowitz Doug Hellmann Massimo Di Pierro Alex Martelli&- GenresProgramming
368 pages, Kindle Edition
Published February 28, 2018
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April 6, 2020
If you're extremely eager to learn about the Python community, than this might be the book for you.
Otherwise I really wouldn't recommend it.
A lot of interviews in the book are the same; the same questions gets asked ("Why is Python such a good fit for data science?" and "Do you think people should move on to Python 3.X?"), the person answering them gives the exact same answer to them and a lot of them don't really give insight to Python as a whole.
The thing I disliked the most about this book are the bold "quotes" the writer add in each paragraph. These parts (to me) don't add anything to the overal interview and straight up just repeat a sentence you have read five seconds ago/are going to read in the next five seconds.
That said, there are some really good interviews in there too and some good history on the creation on Python and certain libraries, and it's really interesting to read about the background of a lot Python developers and the reasons why they learned to program. For someone who isn't active in the Python-Dev community, I've learned alot about what people would like to see changed and added to the language.
Otherwise I really wouldn't recommend it.
A lot of interviews in the book are the same; the same questions gets asked ("Why is Python such a good fit for data science?" and "Do you think people should move on to Python 3.X?"), the person answering them gives the exact same answer to them and a lot of them don't really give insight to Python as a whole.
The thing I disliked the most about this book are the bold "quotes" the writer add in each paragraph. These parts (to me) don't add anything to the overal interview and straight up just repeat a sentence you have read five seconds ago/are going to read in the next five seconds.
That said, there are some really good interviews in there too and some good history on the creation on Python and certain libraries, and it's really interesting to read about the background of a lot Python developers and the reasons why they learned to program. For someone who isn't active in the Python-Dev community, I've learned alot about what people would like to see changed and added to the language.
April 13, 2018
It was interesting to read how members of PSF and PYCON are doing things. I was more surprised people from all sort of backgrounds worked in the core of python. A Lot of answers were repeating but that is because some questions were same for each person interviewed.
October 16, 2019
May be ideal for an undergrad or high schooler that has hopes of becoming a software engineer, but the interviews are a bit too similar for someone beyond that to derive great benefit. That said, as another reviewer mentioned, the inner workings of the PSF were the highlight of the text.
July 26, 2018
Some of the interviews are interesting. Many are not. Also too many duplications in the interview.
April 29, 2018
Great book for knowing about Python's history, its potential and some sneak peaks into the future!! I enjoyed every page of it!
August 11, 2018
A light and engaging read with some good insights on the Python language and its community.
April 27, 2020
Interviews with the authors of popular python packages is very inspiring.
August 29, 2019
Ok, in general, I love this series of Interviews from PackT. I enjoyed most of the interviews in this book.
But I had two problems that bugged the crap out of me.
1) The Bold-type Snippets used imeediately before or after a segment were generally superfluous. And distracting.
2) The Interviewer got trapped by the very fixed nature of his question list. It left him less room to follow some of the interesting differences between interviewees, and more repetitive in their widely held, consistent responses. If perhaps he had built on prior responses, the latter respondents could have elaborated, argued, or amplified the differences in their position.
But I had two problems that bugged the crap out of me.
1) The Bold-type Snippets used imeediately before or after a segment were generally superfluous. And distracting.
2) The Interviewer got trapped by the very fixed nature of his question list. It left him less room to follow some of the interesting differences between interviewees, and more repetitive in their widely held, consistent responses. If perhaps he had built on prior responses, the latter respondents could have elaborated, argued, or amplified the differences in their position.
August 16, 2019
Informative. Would have loved little bit more technical depth.
Come back to this book if:
* need arguments to apply python in corporate environments
* get impulses for python 3 std lib functions I may not yet use (async io, f strings,..)
* understand the process of improving python esp. last two-three interviews in the book
* understand perspective of python core developers on current (well 2017) shortcomings of the language (Gil / multiprocessing, performance wrt Julia)
Come back to this book if:
* need arguments to apply python in corporate environments
* get impulses for python 3 std lib functions I may not yet use (async io, f strings,..)
* understand the process of improving python esp. last two-three interviews in the book
* understand perspective of python core developers on current (well 2017) shortcomings of the language (Gil / multiprocessing, performance wrt Julia)
January 29, 2019
It was interesting to me to find out how all of these different people got into programming and then into python as well as how they all use and are involved with python in different ways. The rest of it was pretty repetitive.
March 3, 2019
This is my first python book, it is interesting to read others story about how they got into programming. Their passion has definitely inspired me.
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