J. M. Hughes (John M. Hughes) is an embedded systems engineer with over 30 years of experience in electronics, embedded systems and software, aerospace systems and scientific applications programming. He was responsible for the surface imaging software on the Phoenix Mars Lander, and has worked on digital engine control systems for commercial and military jet and turboprop aircraft, automated test systems, radio telescope data acquisition, and real-time adaptive optics controls for astronomy. He is currently working on the software for a multi-wavelength laser interferometer system for verifying the alignment of telescope mirror segments, written mostly in Python. He has been using Python… for many years in a variety of applications. He lives in Tucson, Arizona with his wife and daughter.