About the Author

Steven F. Lott has been programming since the 70s, when computers were large, expensive, and rare. As a contract software developer and architect, he has worked on hundreds of projects, from very small to very large. He's been using Python to solve business problems for over 10 years.

He's particularly adept at struggling with thorny data representation problems.

He has also authored Mastering Object-oriented Python by Packt Publishing.

He is currently a technomad who lives in various places on the east coast of the US. His technology blog can be found at http://slott-softwarearchitect.blogspot.com.