Acknowledgments
Five years ago, as I was revising and rewriting to prepare a second edition of this book, I was deeply impressed by how much had changed in the half-decade since its debut in 2004. New web frameworks like CherryPy and Django were creating a revolution in how programmers wrote for the Web, while libraries such as mechanize and lxml were making it easier than ever to fetch information from HTTP servers.
As I wrap up this third edition, it is clear that the Python community has done it again! Improvements large and small have required changes to the text and, in some cases, a complete rewrite of entire chapters. From the core developers who produced the new Python 3 version of the language, to the authors of new web frameworks such ...
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