matthieu brucher holds an engineering degree from the ecole superieure 'electricite (informationsignalsmeasures)franceand has phd in unsupervised manifold learning from the universite de strasbourgfrance he currently holds an hpc software developer position in an oil company and works on next generation reservoir simulation mike driscoll has been programming in python since spring he enjoys writing about python on his blog at also occasionally writes for the python software foundationi-programmerand developer zone he enjoys photography and reading good book mike has also been technical reviewer for the following packt publishing bookspython object oriented programmingpython graphics cookbookand python web development beginner' guide would like to thank my wifeevangelinefor always supporting me would also like to thank my friends and family for all that they do to help me and would like to thank jesus christ for saving me