Tigeraniya A. - Python Unlocked

Arun Tigeraniya has a BE in electronics and communication. After his graduation, he worked at various companies as a Python developer. His main professional interests are AI and Big Data. He enjoys writing efficient and testable code, and interesting technical articles. He has worked with open source technology since 2008. He currently works at Jaarvis Labs Limited, India.

I would like to thank my parents and elder siblings, Ashok and Asha, who have always supported me in completing this book with good quality. A special thanks to the people at Packt for being so understanding even though I missed a few deadlines.

Mike Driscoll has been programming in Python since 2006. He enjoys writing about Python on his blog at http://www.blog.pythonlibrary.org/. He co-authored Core Python Refcard for DZone . Mike has also been a technical reviewer for Python 3 Object Oriented Programming , Python 2.6 Graphics Cookbook and Tkinter GUI Application Development Hotshot , all by Packt Publishing. He recently wrote the book Python 101, and is working on his next book.

I would like to thank my beautiful wife, Evangeline, for always supporting me. I would also like to thank my friends and family for all that they do to help me. Finally, I would like to thank Jesus Christ for saving me.

Chetan Giridhar is a Python developer, open source enthusiast, and start-up specialist. He has authored/reviewed books on Python, published papers in journals, and delivered talks in conferences around the world. You can get in touch with him at <>.

He has also reviewed IPython Interactive Computing and Visualization Cookbook by Packt Publishing.

I would like thank my mentors, friends, colleagues, and my ever-supporting family.

Sanjeev Jaiswal is a computer graduate having 6 years of industrial experience. He uses Perl, Python, and GNU/Linux for his day-to-day work. Sanjeev teaches Perl, Python, web development online as well. Sanjeev has worked closely with major clients, such as CSC, IBM, United Online, and Syniverse. He has also developed an interest in web application security since 2013.

Sanjeev loves teaching technical stuff to engineering students and IT professionals, and he has been teaching since 2008. He founded Alien Coders (http://www.aliencoders.org/) based on the Learning through sharing principle for computer science students and IT professionals in 2010, and it became a huge hit in India amongst engineering students.

He usually uploads technical videos on YouTube under the AlienCoders tag. One can follow him on:

He wrote an Instant book called WebSpeed Optimization Techniques , and Learning Django Web Development by Packt Publishing, and he is always looking forward to author or review more and more books from Packt and other publishers.

I would like to thank my parents and my wife, Shalini Jaiswal, for moral support at every phase of life and growth. I also give deep thanks and gratitude to my best friends Ritesh Kamal and Ranjan Pandey for their personal and professional help all the time.

It is because of them and other friends that I learned and achieved a set of impossible goals in a short time.

Vishrut Mehta is a dual degree student of IIIT Hyderabad, currently in his 5th year. He is completing his MS under Dr. Vasudeva Varma, Research Dean of IIIT, at Search and Information Extraction Lab (SIEL). He works in areas related to software-defined networks and cloud computing. He completed his internship at Google last summer and a research internship at INRIA, France, in 2014. During his internship, he worked on various areas of cloud computing, such as automatic reconfiguration of a multicloud application. Vishrut also participated in Google Summer of Code in 2013 and was also was the admin for the Google Code-in between 2013 and 2014 for Sahana Software Foundation.

He has also reviewed Learning Python Network Programming , Untangle Network Security, and Python Network Programming Cookbook , all by Packt Publishing.

I would like to thank my guides Dr. Vasudeva Varma and Dr. Reddy Raja for constantly supporting my ideas and helping me in my work. I would also like to thank my parents who never lost their faith in me.