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 Latin-1.

David Abrahams

Jim Ahlstrom

Jyrki Alakuijala

Billy G. Allie

Kevin Altis

Mark Anacker

Anders Andersen

John Anderson

Erik Andersén

Oliver Andrich

Ross Andrus

Jason Asbahr

David Ascher

Chris AtLee

John Aycock

Jan-Hein B"uhrman

Donovan Baarda

Attila Babo

Alfonso Baciero

Dwayne Bailey

Stig Bakken

Greg Ball

Luigi Ballabio

Jeff Balogh

Michael J. Barber

Chris Barker

Quentin Barnes

Richard Barran

Cesar Eduardo Barros

Des Barry

Ulf Bartelt

Nick Bastin

Jeff Bauer

Michael R Bax

Anthony Baxter

Samuel L. Bayer

Donald Beaudry

David Beazley

Robin Becker

Neal Becker

Bill Bedford

Reimer Behrends

Ben Bell

Thomas Bellman

Alexander Belopolsky

Andrew Bennetts

Andy Bensky

Michel Van den Bergh

Eric Beser

Steven Bethard

Stephen Bevan

Ron Bickers

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

Gregory Bond

Jurjen Bos

Peter Bosch

Eric Bouck

Thierry Bousch

Sebastian Boving

Monty Brandenberg

Georg Brandl

Terrence Brannon

Dave Brennan

Tom Bridgman

Richard Brodie

Daniel Brotsky

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

Per Cederqvist

Octavian Cerna

Hye-Shik Chang

Jeffrey Chang

Mitch Chapman

Greg Chapman

Brad Chapman

David Chaum

Nicolas Chauvat

Michael Chermside

Albert Chin-A-Young

Adal Chiriliuc

Tom Christiansen

Vadim Chugunov

David Cinege

Mike Clarkson

Brad Clements

Steve Clift

Nick Coghlan

Josh Cogliati

Dave Cole

Benjamin Collar

Jeffery Collins

Paul Colomiets

Matt Conway

David M. Cooke

Greg Copeland

Aldo Cortesi

David Costanzo

Scott Cotton

Greg Couch

Steve Cousins

Alex Coventry

Matthew Dixon Cowles

Christopher A. Craig

Laura Creighton

Drew Csillag

John Cugini

Tom Culliton

Andrew Dalke

Lars Damerow

Eric Daniel

Scott David Daniels

Ben Darnell

Jonathan Dasteel

John DeGood

Vincent Delft

Erik Demaine

Roger Dev

Raghuram Devarakonda

Toby Dickenson

Mark Dickinson

Yves Dionne

Daniel Dittmar

Jaromir Dolecek

Ismail Donmez

Dima Dorfman

Cesar Douady

Dean Draayer

John DuBois

Paul Dubois

Quinn Dunkan

Robin Dunn

Luke Dunstan

Andy Dustman

Gary Duzan

Eugene Dvurechenski

Josip Dzolonga

Maxim Dzumanenko

Walter Dörwald

Hans Eckardt

Grant Edwards

John Ehresman

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

Vincent Fiack

Tomer Filiba

Russell Finn

Nils Fischbeck

Frederik Fix

Matt Fleming

Hernán Martínez Foffani

Michael Foord

Doug Fort

John Fouhy

Martin Franklin

Robin Friedrich

Ivan Frohne

Jim Fulton

Tadayoshi Funaba

Gyro Funch

Peter Funk

Geoff Furnish

Ulisses Furquim

Achim Gaedke

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

Christos Georgiou

Ben Gertzfield

Dinu Gherman

Jonathan Giddy

Johannes Gijsbers

Michael Gilfix

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

Jonathan Hogg

Gerrit Holl

Shane Holloway

Rune Holm

Philip Homburg

Naofumi Honda

Jeffrey Honig

Rob Hooft

Brian Hooper

Randall Hopper

Nadav Horesh

Ken Howard

Brad Howes

Chih-Hao Huang

Lawrence Hudson

Michael Hudson

Jim Hugunin

Greg Humphreys

Eric Huss

Jeremy Hylton

Gerhard Häring

Mihai Ibanescu

Lars Immisch

Tony Ingraldi

John Interrante

Bob Ippolito

Atsuo Ishimoto

Paul Jackson

Ben Jackson

David Jacobs

Kevin Jacobs

Kjetil Jacobsen

Geert Jansen

Jack Jansen

Bill Janssen

Drew Jenkins

Flemming Kjær Jensen

Jiba

Orjan Johansen

Gregory K. Johnson

Simon Johnston

Evan Jones

Jeremy Jones

Richard Jones

Irmen de Jong

Lucas de Jonge

John Jorgensen

Jens B. Jorgensen

Fred L. Drake, Jr.

Andreas Jung

Tattoo Mabonzo K.

Bob Kahn

Kurt B. Kaiser

Tamito Kajiyama

Peter van Kampen

Jacob Kaplan-Moss

Lou Kates

Sebastien Keim

Robert Kern

Randall Kern

Magnus Kessler

Lawrence Kesteloot

Vivek Khera

Mads Kiilerich

Taek Joo Kim

Paul Kippes

Steve Kirsch

Ron Klatchko

Bastian Kleineidam

Bob Kline

Matthias Klose

Kim Knapp

Lenny Kneler

Pat Knight

Greg Kochanski

Damon Kohler

Joseph Koshy

Bob Kras

Holger Krekel

Michael Kremer

Fabian Kreutz

Hannu Krosing

Andrew Kuchling

Vladimir Kushnir

Cameron Laird

Tino Lange

Andrew Langmead

Detlef Lannert

Soren Larsen

Piers Lauder

Ben Laurie

Simon Law

Chris Lawrence

Brian Leair

John J. Lee

Inyeol Lee

Thomas Lee

Christopher Lee

Luc Lefebvre

Kip Lehman

Joerg Lehmann

Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton

Marc-Andre Lemburg

John Lenton

Christopher Tur Lesniewski-Laas

Mark Levinson

William Lewis

Robert van Liere

Shawn Ligocki

Martin Ligr

Christopher Lindblad

Bjorn Lindqvist

Per Lindqvist

Eric Lindvall

Nick Lockwood

Stephanie Lockwood

Anne Lord

Tom Loredo

Jason Lowe

Tony Lownds

Ray Loyzaga

Loren Luke

Fredrik Lundh

Mark Lutz

Jim Lynch

Mikael Lyngvig

Martin von Löwis

Andrew I MacIntyre

Tim MacKenzie

Nick Maclaren

Steve Majewski

Grzegorz Makarewicz

Ken Manheimer

Vladimir Marangozov

David Marek

Doug Marien

Alex Martelli

Anthony Martin

Sébastien Martini

Roger Masse

Nick Mathewson

Graham Matthews

Dieter Maurer

Arnaud Mazin

Chris McDonough

Greg McFarlane

Alan McIntyre

Michael McLay

Gordon McMillan

Caolan McNamara

Andrew McNamara

Craig McPheeters

Lambert Meertens

Bill van Melle

Luke Mewburn

Mike Meyer

Steven Miale

Trent Mick

Damien Miller

Chad Miller

Jay T. Miller

Roman Milner

Dustin J. Mitchell

Dom Mitchell

Doug Moen

The Dragon De Monsyne

Skip Montanaro

Paul Moore

James A Morrison

Sjoerd Mullender

Sape Mullender

Michael Muller

John Nagle

Takahiro Nakayama

Travers Naran

Fredrik Nehr

Trent Nelson

Tony Nelson

Chad Netzer

Max Neunhöffer

George Neville-Neil

Johannes Nicolai

Samuel Nicolary

Gustavo Niemeyer

Oscar Nierstrasz

Hrvoje Niksic

Bill Noon

Stefan Norberg

Tim Northover

Joe Norton

Neal Norwitz

Nigel O'Brian

Kevin O'Connor

Tim O'Malley

Pascal Oberndoerfer

Jeffrey Ollie

Grant Olson

Piet van Oostrum

Jason Orendorff

Douglas Orr

Denis S. Otkidach

Michael Otteneder

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

Mark Perrego

Trevor Perrin

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

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

Antti Rasinen

Eric Raymond

Edward K. Ream

Marc Recht

John Redford

Terry Reedy

Steve Reeves

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

Case Roole

Timothy Roscoe

Jim Roskind

Just van Rossum

Hugo van Rossum

Saskia van Rossum

Donald Wallace Rouse II

Liam Routt

Craig Rowland

Paul Rubin

Sam Ruby

Audun S. Runde

Jeff Rush

Sam Rushing

Mark Russell

Nick Russo

Hajime Saitou

Rich Salz

Kevin Samborn

Ilya Sandler

Ty Sarna

Ben Sayer

Michael Scharf

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

Fred Sells

Jiwon Seo

Jerry Seutter

Denis Severson

Ian Seyer

Ha Shao

Bruce Sherwood

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

Richard Stoakley

Peter Stoehr

Casper Stoel

Michael Stone

Ken Stox

Dan Stromberg

Daniel Stutzbach

Nathan Sullivan

Mark Summerfield

Hisao Suzuki

Kalle Svensson

Paul Swartz

Thenault Sylvain

Geoff Talvola

William Tanksley

Christian Tanzer

Steven Taschuk

Monty Taylor

Amy Taylor

Tobias Thelen

Robin Thomas

Eric Tiedemann

Tracy Tims

Oren Tirosh

Jason Tishler

Christian Tismer

Frank J. Tobin

R Lindsay Todd

Bennett Todd

Richard Townsend

Laurence Tratt

John Tromp

Jason Trowbridge

Anthony Tuininga

Stephen Turner

Bill Tutt

Doobee R. Tzeck

Eren Türkay

Lionel Ulmer

Roger Upole

Michael Urman

Hector Urtubia

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

Greg Ward

Barry Warsaw

Steve Waterbury

Bob 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

Bryce "Zooko" Wilcox-O'Hearn

John Williams

Sue Williams

Gerald S. Williams

Frank Willison

Greg V. Wilson

Jody Winston

Collin Winter

Dik Winter

Blake Winton

Jean-Claude Wippler

Lars Wirzenius

Stefan Witzel

David Wolever

Klaus-Juergen Wolf

Dan Wolfe

Richard Wolff

Gordon Worley

Thomas Wouters

Heiko Wundram

Doug Wyatt

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

Amaury Forgeot d'Arc

Peter Åstrand

Tarek ZiadŽ