David Beazley | |
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Citizenship | United States |
Alma mater | Fort Lewis College University of Oregon University of Utah |
Known for | Python Essential Reference, SWIG, PLY |
Awards | IEEE Gordon Bell Prize (1993, 1998) PyCon Best Paper Award (2001) Fellow, Python Software Foundation (2002) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Computer Science |
Institutions | Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute Los Alamos National Laboratory, University of Chicago Dabeaz LLC |
Thesis | A wrapper generation tool for the creation of scriptable scientific applications (1998) |
Doctoral advisor | Christopher R. Johnson |
Website | http://www.dabeaz.com/blog.html |
David Beazley is an American software engineer. He has made significant contributions to the Python developer community, which includes writing the definitive Python reference text Python Essential Reference, the SWIG software tool for creating language agnostic C and C++ extensions, and the PLY parsing tool.[1][2] He has served on the program committees for PyCon and the O'Reilly Open Source Convention, and was elected a fellow of the Python Software Foundation in 2002.[3][4][5]