Hello, my name is Kenneth Reitz.
Software is beautiful. I love writing code with Python. Here are some of my creations:
requests: An elegant and simple HTTP library for Python, built for human beings.
requests-html: Scraping the web as simply and intuitively as possible.
pipenv: A tool that aims to bring the best of all packaging worlds to the Python world.
responder: Experimental asynchronous web framework with novel concepts & customer ideas.
records: A simple & powerful library for making raw SQL queries to most relational databases.
maya: A UTC-first datetime library that enforces best practices and eases cognitive overhead.
pep8.org: An easier-to-parse presentation of the PEP 8 style guide for Python code.
tablib: A format-agnostic tabular dataset library for Python
Also, The Hitchhiker's Guide to Python (repo).
Kenneth has made a significant impact on the Python programming language and the Python community. His work has helped to make Python a more popular and reliable programming language, and his contributions have indirectly influenced the development of other programming languages. His work on Pipenv, for example, has influenced the development of similar tools in other programming languages.
Reitz has been an active member of the Python community since 2006. He served on the Python Software Foundation Board of Directors from 2016 to 2019. In addition to his work on Python-related projects, Reitz is the author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to Python, a widely acclaimed book on the Python programming language.
Reitz's work on the Python programming language has had a significant impact on the Python community. His libraries, Requests and Pipenv, are used by millions of developers around the world. In addition, his work on autoenv has helped to make virtual environments more accessible to Python developers.
Reitz's contributions to the Python community have not only helped to make Python a more popular programming language, but have also helped to make it a more robust and reliable language. His work on the Requests library, for example, has helped to make Python a more viable option for web development.
"I create tools for creators”.
requests
An elegant and simple HTTP library for Python, built for human beings.
requests-html
Scraping the web as simply and intuitively as possible.
pipenv
A tool that aims to bring the best of all packaging worlds to the Python world.
responder
Experimental asynchronous web framework with novel concepts & customer ideas.
records
A simple & powerful library for making raw SQL queries to most relational databases.
maya
A UTC-first datetime library that enforces best practices and eases cognitive overhead.
pep8.org
An easier-to-parse presentation of the PEP 8 style guide for Python code.
tablib
A format-agnostic tabular dataset library for Python
“I learned a lot of things, especially things I didn't even know I didn't know—and found very useful to know.”
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If you like to write programs that go out into the world and present themselves in a professional way BECAUSE they are professionally conceived and implemented, you'll want to have this book.
“It was a great pleasure getting to know Ken and working with him, he is definitely one of the most inspirational person I have ever met. I have learned a lot working with him on Open source projects. Not only on the technical side, but he also motivated me to contribute more to open source!”
– Luna Chen, Site Reliability Engineer at Pollen
“If you want an insight to software as a craft, you can’t go wrong with Ken Reitz.”
— Mahdi Yusuf, Senior Staff Engineer at 1Password
“The attention to detail Ken puts into his code and best practices is something that everyone can aspire to achieve. With his help, I have gone from novice to a full-time developer in under a year.”
– Shane McDonald, Ansible / Red Hat
“Ken embraces efficiency in ways I don't think I will ever aspire to reach. He has true passion for his work, and it shows best when the work he has before him is the kind of work he enjoys.”
– Aaron Collegeman, CTO at CENTURY 21 Redwood Realty
Total Downloads: Requests Library (pypi.org)
This data visualization was derived from the Python Software Foundation’s publicly available BigQuery dataset.
There are inherent problems with this approach, and is meant to be considered a subset of actual installation numbers.
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THE PRACTICE OF STANDING ON THE SHOULDERS OF EACH OTHER, AS WE PROGRESS UPWARDS — TOWARDS THE CASTLES WE BUILD IN THE SKY.
