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 Latin-1.

David Abrahams

Jim Ahlstrom

Jyrki Alakuijala

Billy G. Allie

Mark Anacker

Anders Andersen

Erik Andersén

Oliver Andrich

Ross Andrus

Jason Asbahr

David Ascher

Peter Åstrand

John Aycock

Donovan Baarda

Attila Babo

Alfonso Baciero

Stig Bakken

Greg Ball

Luigi Ballabio

Michael J. Barber

Chris Barker

Cesar Eduardo Barros

Des Barry

Ulf Bartelt

Jeff Bauer

Anthony Baxter

Samuel L. Bayer

Donald Beaudry

David Beazley

Neal Becker

Bill Bedford

Reimer Behrends

Thomas Bellman

Juan M. Bello Rivas

Andy Bensky

Michel Van den Bergh

Eric Beser

Stephen Bevan

Ron Bickers

Dominic Binks

Roy Bixler

Martin Bless

Pablo Bleyer

Erik van Blokland

Finn Bock

Paul Boddie

Matthew Boedicker

David Bolen

Jurjen Bos

Peter Bosch

Eric Bouck

Thierry Bousch

Monty Brandenberg

Terrence Brannon

Dave Brennan

Tom Bridgman

Gary S. Brown

Daniel Brotsky

Oleg Broytmann

Dave Brueck

Stan Bubrouski

Erik de Bueger

Jan-Hein B"uhrman

Dick Bulterman

Bill Bumgarner

Tommy Burnette

Roger Burnham

Alastair Burt

Tarn Weisner Burton

Lee Busby

Ralph Butler

Daniel Calvelo

Brett Cannon

Mike Carlton

Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton

Donn Cave

Per Cederqvist

Octavian Cerna

Jeffrey Chang

Brad Chapman

Greg Chapman

Mitch Chapman

David Chaum

Nicolas Chauvat

Michael Chermside

Albert Chin-A-Young

Tom Christiansen

Vadim Chugunov

David Cinege

Mike Clarkson

Brad Clements

Steve Clift

Josh Cogliati

Dave Cole

Benjamin Collar

Jeffery Collins

Matt Conway

David M. Cooke

Greg Copeland

David Costanzo

Scott Cotton

Greg Couch

Steve Cousins

Alex Coventry

Matthew Dixon Cowles

Christopher A. Craig

Laura Creighton

Drew Csillag

Tom Culliton

John Cugini

Andrew Dalke

Lars Damerow

Eric Daniel

Ben Darnell

Jonathan Dasteel

John DeGood

Roger Dev

Toby Dickenson

Daniel Dittmar

Walter Dörwald

Jaromir Dolecek

Cesar Douady

Dean Draayer

Fred L. Drake, Jr.

John DuBois

Paul Dubois

Quinn Dunkan

Robin Dunn

Andy Dustman

Gary Duzan

Eugene Dvurechenski

Maxim Dzumanenko

Hans Eckardt

Grant Edwards

Lance Ellinghaus

David Ely

Jeff Epler

Tom Epperly

Stoffel Erasmus

Michael Ernst

Ben Escoto

Andy Eskilsson

Stefan Esser

Carey Evans

Stephen D Evans

Tim Everett

Paul Everitt

Greg Ewing

Martijn Faassen

Andreas Faerber

Bill Fancher

Mark Favas

Niels Ferguson

Sebastian Fernandez

Vincent Fiack

Russell Finn

Nils Fischbeck

Hernán Martínez Foffani

Doug Fort

Martin Franklin

Robin Friedrich

Ivan Frohne

Jim Fulton

Tadayoshi Funaba

Gyro Funch

Peter Funk

Geoff Furnish

Lele Gaifax

Raymund Galvin

Nitin Ganatra

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Lars Marius Garshol

Harry Henry Gebel

Marius Gedminas

Thomas Gellekum

Christos Georgiou

Ben Gertzfield

Dinu Gherman

Jonathan Giddy

Michael Gilfix

Chris Gonnerman

David Goodger

Hans de Graaff

Eddy De Greef

Duncan Grisby

Dag Gruneau

Michael Guravage

Lars Gustäbel

Barry Haddow

Paul ten Hagen

Rasmus Hahn

Peter Haight

Jesse Hallio

Jun Hamano

Mark Hammond

Manus Hand

Milton L. Hankins

Stephen Hansen

Barry Hantman

Lynda Hardman

Derek Harland

Jason Harper

Gerhard Häring

Larry Hastings

Shane Hathaway

Rycharde Hawkes

Jochen Hayek

Thomas Heller

Lance Finn Helsten

Jonathan Hendry

James Henstridge

Chris Herborth

Ivan Herman

Jürgen Hermann

Gary Herron

Bernhard Herzog

Magnus L. Hetland

Raymond Hettinger

Kevan Heydon

Jason Hildebrand

Richie Hindle

Konrad Hinsen

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Tim Hochberg

Joerg-Cyril Hoehle

Gregor Hoffleit

Chris Hoffman

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Jonathan Hogg

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Philip Homburg

Naofumi Honda

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Randall Hopper

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Paul Jackson

David Jacobs

Kevin Jacobs

Geert Jansen

Jack Jansen

Bill Janssen

Drew Jenkins

Flemming Kjær Jensen

Jiba

Orjan Johansen

Simon Johnston

Richard Jones

Lucas de Jonge

Jens B. Jorgensen

John Jorgensen

Andreas Jung

Tattoo Mabonzo K.

Bob Kahn

Tamito Kajiyama

Jacob Kaplan-Moss

Lou Kates

Randall Kern

Robert Kern

Magnus Kessler

Lawrence Kesteloot

Vivek Khera

Mads Kiilerich

Steve Kirsch

Ron Klatchko

Bastian Kleineidam

Bob Kline

Matthias Klose

Kim Knapp

Lenny Kneler

Pat Knight

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Andrew Kuchling

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Detlef Lannert

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Inyeol Lee

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Robert van Liere

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Per Lindqvist

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Stephanie Lockwood

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Mikael Lyngvig

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Marcel van der Peijl

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Fernando Pérez

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Geoff Philbrick

Adrian Phillips

Christopher J. Phoenix

Neale Pickett

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Nicholas Riley

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Saskia van Rossum

Donald Wallace Rouse II

Audun S. Runde

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Sam Rushing

Nick Russo

Rich Salz

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Ty Sarna

Ben Sayer

Michael Scharf

Neil Schemenauer

David Scherer

Gregor Schmid

Peter Schneider-Kamp

Sam Schulenburg

Stefan Schwarzer

Dietmar Schwertberger

Barry Scott

Steven Scott

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Denis Severson

Ha Shao

Bruce Sherwood

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John W. Shipman

Joel Shprentz

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Paul Sijben

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Nathan Paul Simons

Janne Sinkkonen

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Kragen Sitaker

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Gregory P. Smith

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Clay Spence

Per Spilling

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Oliver Steele

Greg Stein

Chris Stern

Dan Stromberg

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Mark Summerfield

Hisao Suzuki

Kalle Svensson

Hajime Saitou

Nathan Srebro

RajGopal Srinivasan

Jim St. Pierre

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Amy Taylor

Tobias Thelen

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Eric Tiedemann

Tracy Tims

Oren Tirosh

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Christian Tismer

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Richard Townsend

Laurence Tratt

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Bill Tutt

Doobee R. Tzeck

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Jaap Vermeulen

Al Vezza

Jacques A. Vidrine

John Viega

Kannan Vijayan

Kurt Vile

Norman Vine

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Charles Waldman

Richard Walker

Larry Wall

Greg Ward

Barry Warsaw

Steve Waterbury

Aaron Watters

Bob Watson

Henrik Weber

Corran Webster

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Rickard Westman

Mats Wichmann

Truida Wiedijk

Gerry Wiener

Bryce "Zooko" Wilcox-O'Hearn

Gerald S. Williams

John Williams

Sue Williams

Frank Willison

Greg V. Wilson

Jody Winston

Dik Winter

Blake Winton

Jean-Claude Wippler

Lars Wirzenius

Stefan Witzel

Klaus-Juergen Wolf

Dan Wolfe

Richard Wolff

Gordon Worley

Thomas Wouters

Doug Wyatt

Ka-Ping Yee

Bob Yodlowski

Masazumi Yoshikawa

Danny Yoo

Bernard Yue

Moshe Zadka

Milan Zamazal

Artur Zaprzala

Mike Zarnstorff

Siebren van der Zee

Uwe Zessin