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Python Interviews

By : Michael Driscoll
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Python Interviews

By: Michael Driscoll

Overview of this book

Each 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.
Table of Contents (25 chapters)
Python Interviews
Foreword
Contributor
Preface
Other Books You May Enjoy
Free Chapter
1
Brett Cannon
2
Steve Holden
3
Carol Willing
4
Glyph Lefkowitz
5
Doug Hellmann
6
Massimo Di Pierro
7
Alex Martelli
8
Marc-André Lemburg
9
Barry Warsaw
10
Jessica McKellar
11
Tarek Ziadé
12
Sebastian Raschka
13
Wesley Chun
14
Steven Lott
15
Oliver Schoenborn
16
Al Sweigart
17
Luciano Ramalho
18
Nick Coghlan
19
Mike Bayer
20
Jake Vanderplas

Chapter 11. Tarek Ziadé

Tarek Ziadé is a French Python developer and author. Past roles have included R&D developer at Nuxeo and software engineer at Mozilla. Today Tarek is a staff application engineer at Mozilla, where he creates tools for developers. He has written several Python books, in both English and French, including Expert Python Programming and Python Microservices Development. Tarek is the founder of Afpy, a French Python user group and has delivered talks at both PyCon and EuroPython. He regularly contributes to open source Python projects.

Discussion themes: AI, v2.7/v3.x, Afpy.

Catch up with Tarek Ziadé here: @tarek_ziade

Mike Driscoll: Why did you become a programmer?

Tarek Ziadé: In hindsight, I became a programmer for two reasons: to become the god of my little world and to impress my mom, who is a programmer as well.

When I was six years old, I was at a fair with my mom. There was a giant paper sheet on the floor, with a turtle that had a pen. You could program the...