it' misleading to have just my name on the cover couldn' have written book like this without the help of lot of people ' like to thank my publisherbill pollockmy editorslaurel chunleslie shengreg poulosjennifer griffith-delgadoand frances sauxand the rest of the staff at no starch press for their invaluable help thanks to my tech reviewersari lacenski and philip jamesfor great suggestionseditsand support many thanks to everyone at the python software foundation for their great work the python community is the best one 've found in the tech industry finallyi would like to thank my familyfriendsand the gang at shotwell' for not minding the busy life 've had while writing this book cheers