Acknowledgements

----------------

This list is not complete and not in any useful order, but I would

like to thank everybody who contributed in any way, with code, hints,

bug reports, ideas, moral support, endorsement, or even complaints....

Without you, I would've stopped working on Python long ago!

--Guido

PS: In the standard Python distribution, this file is encoded in UTF-8

and the list is in rough alphabetical order by last names.

David Abrahams

Jim Ahlstrom

Farhan Ahmad

Matthew Ahrens

Nir Aides

Yaniv Aknin

Jyrki Alakuijala

Billy G. Allie

Kevin Altis

Joe Amenta

Mark Anacker

Shashwat Anand

Anders Andersen

John Anderson

Erik Andersén

Oliver Andrich

Ross Andrus

Jon Anglin

Éric Araujo

Jason Asbahr

David Ascher

Chris AtLee

John Aycock

Jan-Hein Bührman

Donovan Baarda

Attila Babo

Alfonso Baciero

Marcin Bachry

Dwayne Bailey

Stig Bakken

Greg Ball

Luigi Ballabio

Jeff Balogh

Michael J. Barber

Chris Barker

Nick Barnes

Quentin Barnes

Richard Barran

Cesar Eduardo Barros

Des Barry

Ulf Bartelt

Nick Bastin

Jeff Bauer

Mike Bayer

Michael R Bax

Anthony Baxter

Samuel L. Bayer

Donald Beaudry

David Beazley

Robin Becker

Neal Becker

Bill Bedford

Stefan Behnel

Reimer Behrends

Ben Bell

Thomas Bellman

Alexander “Саша” Belopolsky

Eli Bendersky

Andrew Bennetts

Andy Bensky

Michel Van den Bergh

Eric Beser

Steven Bethard

Stephen Bevan

Ron Bickers

David Binger

Dominic Binks

Philippe Biondi

Stuart Bishop

Roy Bixler

Mike Bland

Martin Bless

Pablo Bleyer

Erik van Blokland

Eric Blossom

Finn Bock

Paul Boddie

Matthew Boedicker

David Bolen

Forest Bond

Gawain Bolton

Gregory Bond

Jurjen Bos

Peter Bosch

Eric Bouck

Thierry Bousch

Sebastian Boving

Jeff Bradberry

Monty Brandenberg

Georg Brandl

Christopher Brannon

Terrence Brannon

Brian Brazil

Dave Brennan

Tom Bridgman

Richard Brodie

Michael Broghton

Daniel Brotsky

Jean Brouwers

Gary S. Brown

Oleg Broytmann

Dave Brueck

Stan Bubrouski

Erik de Bueger

Dick Bulterman

Bill Bumgarner

Jimmy Burgett

Tommy Burnette

Roger Burnham

Alastair Burt

Tarn Weisner Burton

Lee Busby

Ralph Butler

Jp Calderone

Daniel Calvelo

Tony Campbell

Brett Cannon

Mike Carlton

Terry Carroll

Donn Cave

Charles Cazabon

Per Cederqvist

Octavian Cerna

Pascal Chambon

John Chandler

Hye-Shik Chang

Jeffrey Chang

Mitch Chapman

Greg Chapman

Brad Chapman

David Chaum

Nicolas Chauvat

Jerry Chen

Michael Chermside

Albert Chin-A-Young

Adal Chiriliuc

Matt Chisholm

Anders Chrigström

Tom Christiansen

Vadim Chugunov

David Cinege

Mike Clarkson

Andrew Clegg

Brad Clements

Steve Clift

Nick Coghlan

Josh Cogliati

Dave Cole

Terrence Cole

Benjamin Collar

Jeffery Collins

Robert Collins

Paul Colomiets

Geremy Condra

Juan José Conti

Matt Conway

David M. Cooke

Jason R. Coombs

Greg Copeland

Aldo Cortesi

David Costanzo

Scott Cotton

Greg Couch

David Cournapeau

Steve Cousins

Alex Coventry

Matthew Dixon Cowles

Ryan Coyner

Christopher A. Craig

Laura Creighton

Simon Cross

Drew Csillag

Joaquin Cuenca Abela

John Cugini

Tom Culliton

Antonio Cuni

Brian Curtin

Lisandro Dalcin

Andrew Dalke

Lars Damerow

Eric Daniel

Scott David Daniels

Ben Darnell

Jonathan Dasteel

John DeGood

Ned Deily

Vincent Delft

Arnaud Delobelle

Erik Demaine

Roger Dev

Raghuram Devarakonda

Caleb Deveraux

Catherine Devlin

Scott Dial

Toby Dickenson

Mark Dickinson

Jack Diederich

Daniel Diniz

Humberto Diogenes

Yves Dionne

Daniel Dittmar

Jaromir Dolecek

Ismail Donmez

Marcos Donolo

Dima Dorfman

Cesar Douady

Dean Draayer

Fred L. Drake, Jr.

Derk Drukker

John DuBois

Paul Dubois

Graham Dumpleton

Quinn Dunkan

Robin Dunn

Luke Dunstan

Virgil Dupras

Andy Dustman

Gary Duzan

Eugene Dvurechenski

Josip Dzolonga

Maxim Dzumanenko

Walter Dörwald

Hans Eckardt

Grant Edwards

John Ehresman

Eric Eisner

Andrew Eland

Lance Ellinghaus

David Ely

Jeff Epler

Tom Epperly

Stoffel Erasmus

Jürgen A. Erhard

Michael Ernst

Ben Escoto

Andy Eskilsson

Stefan Esser

Stephen D Evans

Carey Evans

Tim Everett

Paul Everitt

David Everly

Greg Ewing

Martijn Faassen

Andreas Faerber

Bill Fancher

Mark Favas

Niels Ferguson

Sebastian Fernandez

Florian Festi

Vincent Fiack

Tomer Filiba

Jeffrey Finkelstein

Russell Finn

Nils Fischbeck

Frederik Fix

Matt Fleming

Hernán Martínez Foffani

Michael Foord

Amaury Forgeot d'Arc

Doug Fort

John Fouhy

Martin Franklin

Robin Friedrich

Ivan Frohne

Jim Fulton

Tadayoshi Funaba

Gyro Funch

Peter Funk

Geoff Furnish

Ulisses Furquim

Hagen Fürstenau

Achim Gaedke

Martin von Gagern

Lele Gaifax

Santiago Gala

Yitzchak Gale

Quentin Gallet-Gilles

Raymund Galvin

Nitin Ganatra

Fred Gansevles

Lars Marius Garshol

Dan Gass

Andrew Gaul

Stephen M. Gava

Harry Henry Gebel

Marius Gedminas

Thomas Gellekum

Gabriel Genellina

Christos Georgiou

Ben Gertzfield

Dinu Gherman

Jonathan Giddy

Johannes Gijsbers

Michael Gilfix

Christoph Gohlke

Tim Golden

Chris Gonnerman

David Goodger

Hans de Graaff

Eddy De Greef

Duncan Grisby

Dag Gruneau

Michael Guravage

Lars Gustäbel

Thomas Güttler

Barry Haddow

Paul ten Hagen

Rasmus Hahn

Peter Haight

Václav Haisman

Bob Halley

Jesse Hallio

Jun Hamano

Mark Hammond

Manus Hand

Milton L. Hankins

Stephen Hansen

Barry Hantman

Lynda Hardman

Derek Harland

Jason Harper

Larry Hastings

Shane Hathaway

Rycharde Hawkes

Jochen Hayek

Christian Heimes

Thomas Heller

Malte Helmert

Lance Finn Helsten

Jonathan Hendry

James Henstridge

Chris Herborth

Ivan Herman

Jürgen Hermann

Gary Herron

Thomas Herve

Bernhard Herzog

Magnus L. Hetland

Raymond Hettinger

Kevan Heydon

Jason Hildebrand

Richie Hindle

Konrad Hinsen

David Hobley

Tim Hochberg

Joerg-Cyril Hoehle

Gregor Hoffleit

Chris Hoffman

Albert Hofkamp

Tomas Hoger

Jonathan Hogg

Gerrit Holl

Shane Holloway

Rune Holm

Philip Homburg

Naofumi Honda

Jeffrey Honig

Rob Hooft

Michiel de Hoon

Brian Hooper

Randall Hopper

Nadav Horesh

Jan Hosang

Ken Howard

Brad Howes

Chih-Hao Huang

Lawrence Hudson

Michael Hudson

Jim Hugunin

Greg Humphreys

Eric Huss

Jeremy Hylton

Gerhard Häring

Fredrik Håård

Mihai Ibanescu

Lars Immisch

Meador Inge

Tony Ingraldi

John Interrante

Bob Ippolito

Atsuo Ishimoto

Adam Jackson

Ben Jackson

Paul Jackson

David Jacobs

Kevin Jacobs

Kjetil Jacobsen

Bertrand Janin

Geert Jansen

Jack Jansen

Bill Janssen

Drew Jenkins

Flemming Kjær Jensen

MunSic Jeong

Orjan Johansen

Fredrik Johansson

Gregory K. Johnson

Simon Johnston

Thomas Jollans

Evan Jones

Jeremy Jones

Richard Jones

Irmen de Jong

Lucas de Jonge

John Jorgensen

Jens B. Jorgensen

Andreas Jung

Tattoo Mabonzo K.

Bob Kahn

Kurt B. Kaiser

Tamito Kajiyama

Peter van Kampen

Rafe Kaplan

Jacob Kaplan-Moss

Lou Kates

Hiroaki Kawai

Sebastien Keim

Ryan Kelly

Robert Kern

Randall Kern

Magnus Kessler

Lawrence Kesteloot

Vivek Khera

Mads Kiilerich

Taek Joo Kim

Paul Kippes

Steve Kirsch

Sebastian Kirsche

Ron Klatchko

Bastian Kleineidam

Bob Kline

Matthias Klose

Kim Knapp

Lenny Kneler

Pat Knight

Greg Kochanski

Damon Kohler

Joseph Koshy

Maksim Kozyarchuk

Stefan Krah

Bob Kras

Holger Krekel

Michael Kremer

Fabian Kreutz

Hannu Krosing

Andrej Krpic

Ivan Krstić

Andrew Kuchling

Vladimir Kushnir

Cameron Laird

Jean-Baptiste "Jiba" Lamy

Torsten Landschoff

Łukasz Langa

Tino Lange

Andrew Langmead

Detlef Lannert

Soren Larsen

Piers Lauder

Ben Laurie

Simon Law

Chris Lawrence

Brian Leair

James Lee

John J. Lee

Inyeol Lee

Thomas Lee

Christopher Lee

Tennessee Leeuwenburg

Luc Lefebvre

Vincent Legoll

Kip Lehman

Joerg Lehmann

Robert Lehmann

Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton

Marc-Andre Lemburg

John Lenton

Christopher Tur Lesniewski-Laas

Mark Levinson

William Lewis

Robert van Liere

Ross Light

Shawn Ligocki

Martin Ligr

Grant Limberg

Christopher Lindblad

Björn Lindqvist

Per Lindqvist

Eric Lindvall

Gregor Lingl

Nick Lockwood

Stephanie Lockwood

Anne Lord

Tom Loredo

Jason Lowe

Tony Lownds

Ray Loyzaga

Lukas Lueg

Loren Luke

Fredrik Lundh

Mark Lutz

Jim Lynch

Mikael Lyngvig

Martin von Löwis

Andrew I MacIntyre

Tim MacKenzie

Nick Maclaren

Don MacMillen

Steve Majewski

Grzegorz Makarewicz

David Malcolm

Ken Manheimer

Vladimir Marangozov

David Marek

Doug Marien

Alex Martelli

Anthony Martin

Sébastien Martini

Roger Masse

Nick Mathewson

Graham Matthews

Dieter Maurer

Arnaud Mazin

Kirk McDonald

Chris McDonough

Greg McFarlane

Alan McIntyre

Michael McLay

Gordon McMillan

Caolan McNamara

Andrew McNamara

Craig McPheeters

Lambert Meertens

Bill van Melle

Lucas Prado Melo

Ezio Melotti

Brian Merrell

Luke Mewburn

Mike Meyer

Steven Miale

Trent Mick

Aristotelis Mikropoulos

Damien Miller

Chad Miller

Jason V. Miller

Jay T. Miller

Roman Milner

Andrii V. Mishkovskyi

Dustin J. Mitchell

Dom Mitchell

Doug Moen

The Dragon De Monsyne

Skip Montanaro

Paul Moore

Derek Morr

James A Morrison

Pablo Mouzo

Sjoerd Mullender

Sape Mullender

Michael Muller

Neil Muller

R. David Murray

Piotr Meyer

John Nagle

Takahiro Nakayama

Travers Naran

Charles-François Natali

Fredrik Nehr

Trent Nelson

Tony Nelson

Chad Netzer

Max Neunhöffer

George Neville-Neil

Johannes Nicolai

Samuel Nicolary

Gustavo Niemeyer

Oscar Nierstrasz

Hrvoje Niksic

Gregory Nofi

Jesse Noller

Bill Noon

Stefan Norberg

Tim Northover

Joe Norton

Neal Norwitz

Nigel O'Brian

Kevin O'Connor

Tim O'Malley

Pascal Oberndoerfer

Jeffrey Ollie

Adam Olsen

Grant Olson

Piet van Oostrum

Jason Orendorff

Douglas Orr

Michele Orrù

Denis S. Otkidach

Michael Otteneder

R. M. Oudkerk

Russel Owen

Ondrej Palkovsky

Mike Pall

Todd R. Palmer

Juan David Ibáñez Palomar

Jan Palus

M. Papillon

Peter Parente

Alexandre Parenteau

Dan Parisien

Harri Pasanen

Randy Pausch

Samuele Pedroni

Marcel van der Peijl

Steven Pemberton

Santiago Peresón

Mark Perrego

Trevor Perrin

Gabriel de Perthuis

Tim Peters

Benjamin Peterson

Chris Petrilli

Bjorn Pettersen

Geoff Philbrick

Gavrie Philipson

Adrian Phillips

Christopher J. Phoenix

Neale Pickett

Jim St. Pierre

Dan Pierson

Martijn Pieters

Anand B. Pillai

François Pinard

Zach Pincus

Michael Piotrowski

Antoine Pitrou

Jean-François Piéronne

Guilherme Polo

Michael Pomraning

Iustin Pop

John Popplewell

Amrit Prem

Paul Prescod

Donovan Preston

Steve Purcell

Fernando Pérez

Eduardo Pérez

Brian Quinlan

Anders Qvist

Burton Radons

Brodie Rao

Antti Rasinen

Sridhar Ratnakumar

Eric Raymond

Edward K. Ream

Chris Rebert

Marc Recht

John Redford

Terry Reedy

Steve Reeves

Lennart Regebro

Ofir Reichenberg

Sean Reifschneider

Michael P. Reilly

Bernhard Reiter

Steven Reiz

Roeland Rengelink

Tim Rice

Jan Pieter Riegel

Armin Rigo

Nicholas Riley

Jean-Claude Rimbault

Juan M. Bello Rivas

Anthony Roach

Mark Roberts

Jim Robinson

Andy Robinson

Kevin Rodgers

Giampaolo Rodola

Mike Romberg

Armin Ronacher

Case Roole

Timothy Roscoe

Jim Roskind

Just van Rossum

Hugo van Rossum

Saskia van Rossum

Donald Wallace Rouse II

Liam Routt

Craig Rowland

Clinton Roy

Paul Rubin

Sam Ruby

Demur Rumed

Audun S. Runde

Rauli Ruohonen

Jeff Rush

Sam Rushing

Mark Russell

Nick Russo

Sébastien Sablé

Hajime Saitou

George Sakkis

Rich Salz

Kevin Samborn

Ilya Sandler

Mark Sapiro

Ty Sarna

Ben Sayer

Michael Scharf

Andreas Schawo

Neil Schemenauer

David Scherer

Gregor Schmid

Ralf Schmitt

Michael Schneider

Peter Schneider-Kamp

Arvin Schnell

Chad J. Schroeder

Sam Schulenburg

Stefan Schwarzer

Dietmar Schwertberger

Federico Schwindt

Steven Scott

Barry Scott

Nick Seidenman

Žiga Seilnach

Yury Selivanov

Fred Sells

Jiwon Seo

Roger D. Serwy

Jerry Seutter

Denis Severson

Ian Seyer

Ha Shao

Richard Shapiro

Bruce Sherwood

Alexander Shigin

Pete Shinners

Michael Shiplett

John W. Shipman

Joel Shprentz

Itamar Shtull-Trauring

Eric Siegerman

Paul Sijben

Kirill Simonov

Nathan Paul Simons

Janne Sinkkonen

George Sipe

J. Sipprell

Kragen Sitaker

Eric V. Smith

Christopher Smith

Gregory P. Smith

Rafal Smotrzyk

Dirk Soede

Paul Sokolovsky

Cody Somerville

Clay Spence

Per Spilling

Joshua Spoerri

Noah Spurrier

Nathan Srebro

RajGopal Srinivasan

Quentin Stafford-Fraser

Frank Stajano

Oliver Steele

Greg Stein

Chris Stern

Victor Stinner

Richard Stoakley

Peter Stoehr

Casper Stoel

Michael Stone

Ken Stox

Dan Stromberg

Daniel Stutzbach

Pal Subbiah

Nathan Sullivan

Mark Summerfield

Hisao Suzuki

Andrew Svetlov

Kalle Svensson

Andrew Svetlov

Paul Swartz

Thenault Sylvain

Péter Szabó

Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis

Neil Tallim

Geoff Talvola

Musashi Tamura

William Tanksley

Christian Tanzer

Steven Taschuk

Monty Taylor

Amy Taylor

Anatoly Techtonik

Tobias Thelen

James Thomas

Robin Thomas

Eric Tiedemann

Tracy Tims

Oren Tirosh

Jason Tishler

Christian Tismer

Frank J. Tobin

R Lindsay Todd

Bennett Todd

Matias Torchinsky

Sandro Tosi

Richard Townsend

Laurence Tratt

John Tromp

Jason Trowbridge

Anthony Tuininga

Stephen Turner

Theodore Turocy

Bill Tutt

Doobee R. Tzeck

Eren Türkay

Lionel Ulmer

Roger Upole

Daniel Urban

Michael Urman

Hector Urtubia

Andi Vajda

Case Van Horsen

Kyle VanderBeek

Atul Varma

Dmitry Vasiliev

Alexandre Vassalotti

Frank Vercruesse

Mike Verdone

Jaap Vermeulen

Al Vezza

Jacques A. Vidrine

John Viega

Kannan Vijayan

Kurt Vile

Norman Vine

Frank Visser

Niki W. Waibel

Wojtek Walczak

Charles Waldman

Richard Walker

Larry Wall

Rodrigo Steinmuller Wanderley

Greg Ward

Barry Warsaw

Steve Waterbury

Bob Watson

David Watson

Aaron Watters

Henrik Weber

Corran Webster

Stefan Wehr

Zack Weinberg

Edward Welbourne

Cliff Wells

Rickard Westman

Jeff Wheeler

Christopher White

Mats Wichmann

Truida Wiedijk

Felix Wiemann

Gerry Wiener

Frank Wierzbicki

Bryce "Zooko" Wilcox-O'Hearn

Jason Williams

John Williams

Sue Williams

Gerald S. Williams

Frank Willison

Greg V. Wilson

Jody Winston

Collin Winter

Dik Winter

Blake Winton

Jean-Claude Wippler

Frank Wierzbicki

Lars Wirzenius

John Wiseman

Chris Withers

Stefan Witzel

Irek Wlizlo

David Wolever

Klaus-Juergen Wolf

Dan Wolfe

Richard Wolff

Darren Worrall

Gordon Worley

Thomas Wouters

Heiko Wundram

Doug Wyatt

Florent Xicluna

Hirokazu Yamamoto

Ka-Ping Yee

Bob Yodlowski

Danny Yoo

George Yoshida

Masazumi Yoshikawa

Bernard Yue

Moshe Zadka

Milan Zamazal

Artur Zaprzala

Mike Zarnstorff

Siebren van der Zee

Uwe Zessin

Tarek Ziadé

Peter Åstrand