COLOPHON"Core Python Programming", 2nd Edition, by Wesley J. ChunThe new portions of this book were composed in raw text by theauthor in (g)vim. It was then imported by the author into AdobeFrameMaker 7.1 and edited along with the material from the 1stedition. After copyedit, the book was further edited, thencomposited and typeset, all by ITC (http://inttype.com).The following fonts were used: Arial_MT, Cheltenham, Courier,Courier New, Futura, Gill Sans, New Caledonia, Present,Symbol, Times, and Times New Roman PS. The book is printed on45# Williamsburg Offset Smooth Recycled paper by Courier inStoughton, Massachusetts. The prepress consisted of computer-to-plate technology (in a filmless manner). The cover wasprinted by Moore Langen in Terre Haute, Indiana. The images appearing on the cover of both editions of thisbook depict friendly shapes and building blocks. Python is amodular language which allows programmers to easily selectthe right components to build applications with. Its plug andplay style makes developing in Python (almost) as simple as achild's toy. With Python creator Guido van Rossum's philosophyof (usually) having only one (right) way of doing things, youseldom have to worry about fitting a square peg into a roundhole. "Python fits your brain," noted Bruce Eckel, Pythonfan and well-known author of "Thinking in Java" and "Thinkingin C++".