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 ones. He's been using Python to solve business problems for over 10 years.

He's particularly adept in struggling with gnarly data representation problems. He is also the author of Mastering Object-oriented Python, Packt Publishing.

He is currently a technomad who lives in various places on the East Coast of the U.S. His technology blog is located at http://slott-softwarearchitect.blogspot.com.