[ David Beazley ]

Welcome! I am an independent software developer, teacher, and book author living in the city of Chicago. I primarily work on programming tools and teach programming courses for software developers, scientists, and engineers. I am the author of the Python Essential Reference (Addison-Wesley) and Python Cookbook, 3rd Ed. (O'Reilly Media). I have also created several open-source packages (e.g., Swig and PLY). Although Python is my current language of choice, I also have significant experience with systems programming in C, C++, and assembly language.

Recent Talks and Tutorials

• Python Concurrency From the Ground Up: Live! PyCon'2015.
• Modules and Packages: Live and Let Die! [ video. ] PyCon'2015.
• Generators: The Final Frontier [ video. ] PyCon'2014.
• Discovering Python. PyCon'2014.
• Learn Python Through Public Data Hacking [ video ], PyCon'2013.
• Python 3 Metaprogramming [ video ]. PyCon'2013.
• Python: A Toy Language. PyCon'2013.

[ more talks | YouTube | SlideShare ]

News

• (4/26/15) After a four-year hiatus, PLY-3.6 is finally released. Get your parsing groove on.
• (6/1/13) The Python Cookbook, 3rd Edition is released and available. Get it, blow your mind, and explore the fun of uninhibited Python 3 programming.

Contact

More information can be obtained by sending email to "dave" at "dabeaz.com" [ Follow on Twitter ]