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.

Aahz

Michael Abbott

Rajiv Abraham

David Abrahams

Marc Abramowitz

Ron Adam

Ali Afshar

Jim Ahlstrom

Farhan Ahmad

Matthew Ahrens

Nir Aides

Yaniv Aknin

Jyrki Alakuijala

Steve Alexander

Fred Allen

Ray Allen

Billy G. Allie

Kevin Altis

Joe Amenta

A. Amoroso

Mark Anacker

Shashwat Anand

Anders Andersen

John Anderson

Pehr Anderson

Erik Andersén

Oliver Andrich

Ross Andrus

Juancarlo Añez

Jérémy Anger

Ankur Ankan

Jon Anglin

Heidi Annexstad

Ramchandra Apte

Éric Araujo

Alicia Arlen

Jeffrey Armstrong

Jason Asbahr

David Ascher

Chris AtLee

Aymeric Augustin

John Aycock

Donovan Baarda

Arne Babenhauserheide

Attila Babo

Marcin Bachry

Alfonso Baciero

Dwayne Bailey

Stig Bakken

Greg Ball

Luigi Ballabio

Jeff Balogh

Manuel Balsera

Matt Bandy

Dmi Baranov

Michael J. Barber

Daniel Barclay

Nicolas Bareil

Chris Barker

Anton Barkovsky

Nick Barnes

Quentin Barnes

David Barnett

Matthew Barnett

Richard Barran

Cesar Eduardo Barros

Des Barry

Ulf Bartelt

Don Bashford

Pior Bastida

Nick Bastin

Ned Batchelder

Jeff Bauer

Michael R Bax

Anthony Baxter

Mike Bayer

Samuel L. Bayer

Donald Beaudry

David Beazley

Neal Becker

Robin Becker

Torsten Becker

Bill Bedford

Stefan Behnel

Reimer Behrends

Ben Bell

Thomas Bellman

Alexander “Саша” Belopolsky

Eli Bendersky

David Benjamin

Andrew Bennetts

Andy Bensky

Bennett Benson

Ezra Berch

Michel Van den Bergh

Julian Berman

Brice Berna

Olivier Bernard

Eric Beser

Steven Bethard

Stephen Bevan

Ron Bickers

Natalia B. Bidart

Adrian von Bidder

David Binger

Dominic Binks

Philippe Biondi

Michael Birtwell

Stuart Bishop

Roy Bixler

Jonathan Black

Renaud Blanch

Mike Bland

Martin Bless

Pablo Bleyer

Erik van Blokland

Eric Blossom

Finn Bock

Paul Boddie

Matthew Boedicker

Robin Boerdijk

David Bolen

Gawain Bolton

Forest Bond

Gregory Bond

Matias Bordese

Jurjen Bos

Peter Bosch

Dan Boswell

Eric Bouck

Thierry Bousch

Sebastian Boving

Michal Bozon

Jeff Bradberry

Aaron Brancotti

Monty Brandenberg

Georg Brandl

Christopher Brannon

Terrence Brannon

Erik Bray

Brian Brazil

Dave Brennan

Tom Bridgman

Anthony Briggs

Keith Briggs

Tobias Brink

Richard Brodie

Michael Broghton

Daniel Brotsky

Jean Brouwers

Gary S. Brown

Titus Brown

Oleg Broytmann

Dave Brueck

Francisco Martín Brugué

Ian Bruntlett

Floris Bruynooghe

Stan Bubrouski

Erik de Bueger

Jan-Hein Bührman

Dick Bulterman

Bill Bumgarner

Jimmy Burgett

Edmond Burnett

Tommy Burnette

Roger Burnham

Alastair Burt

Tarn Weisner Burton

Lee Busby

Ralph Butler

Nicolas Cadou

Jp Calderone

Arnaud Calmettes

Daniel Calvelo

Tony Campbell

Brett Cannon

Mike Carlton

Pierre Carrier

Terry Carroll

Lorenzo M. Catucci

Donn Cave

Charles Cazabon

Jesús Cea Avión

Per Cederqvist

Matej Cepl

Carl Cerecke

Octavian Cerna

Pascal Chambon

John Chandler

Hye-Shik Chang

Jeffrey Chang

Godefroid Chapelle

Brad Chapman

Greg Chapman

Mitch Chapman

Yogesh Chaudhari

David Chaum

Nicolas Chauvat

Jerry Chen

Michael Chermside

Ingrid Cheung

Albert Chin-A-Young

Adal Chiriliuc

Matt Chisholm

Anders Chrigström

Tom Christiansen

Vadim Chugunov

Mauro Cicognini

David Cinege

Craig Citro

Gilles Civario

Chris Clark

Mike Clarkson

Andrew Clegg

Brad Clements

Robbie Clemons

Steve Clift

Hervé Coatanhay

Nick Coghlan

Josh Cogliati

Dave Cole

Terrence Cole

Benjamin Collar

Jeffery Collins

Robert Collins

Paul Colomiets

Christophe Combelles

Geremy Condra

Denver Coneybeare

Phil Connell

Juan José Conti

Matt Conway

David M. Cooke

Jason R. Coombs

Garrett Cooper

Greg Copeland

Aldo Cortesi

David Costanzo

Scott Cotton

Greg Couch

David Cournapeau

Julien Courteau

Steve Cousins

Alex Coventry

Matthew Dixon Cowles

Ryan Coyner

Christopher A. Craig

Jeremy Craven

Laura Creighton

Simon Cross

Felipe Cruz

Drew Csillag

Joaquin Cuenca Abela

John Cugini

Tom Culliton

Antonio Cuni

Brian Curtin

Lisandro Dalcin

Darren Dale

Andrew Dalke

Lars Damerow

Evan Dandrea

Eric Daniel

Scott David Daniels

Ben Darnell

Kushal Das

Jonathan Dasteel

Pierre-Yves David

A. Jesse Jiryu Davis

John DeGood

Ned Deily

Vincent Delft

Arnaud Delobelle

Konrad Delong

Erik Demaine

John Dennis

L. Peter Deutsch

Roger Dev

Philippe Devalkeneer

Raghuram Devarakonda

Caleb Deveraux

Catherine Devlin

Scott Dial

Toby Dickenson

Mark Dickinson

Jack Diederich

Daniel Diniz

Humberto Diogenes

Yves Dionne

Daniel Dittmar

Josip Djolonga

Jaromir Dolecek

Ismail Donmez

Robert Donohue

Marcos Donolo

Dima Dorfman

Yves Dorfsman

Cesar Douady

Dean Draayer

Fred L. Drake, Jr.

Derk Drukker

John DuBois

Paul Dubois

Jacques Ducasse

Graham Dumpleton

Quinn Dunkan

Robin Dunn

Luke Dunstan

Virgil Dupras

Andy Dustman

Gary Duzan

Eugene Dvurechenski

Josip Dzolonga

Maxim Dzumanenko

Walter Dörwald

Hans Eckardt

Rodolpho Eckhardt

David Edelsohn

John Edmonds

Grant Edwards

John Ehresman

Tal Einat

Eric Eisner

Andrew Eland

Julien Élie

Lance Ellinghaus

Daniel Ellis

Phil Elson

David Ely

Jeff Epler

Tom Epperly

Stoffel Erasmus

Jürgen A. Erhard

Michael Ernst

Ben Escoto

Andy Eskilsson

André Espaze

Stefan Esser

Nicolas Estibals

Carey Evans

Stephen D Evans

Tim Everett

Paul Everitt

David Everly

Daniel Evers

Winston Ewert

Greg Ewing

Martijn Faassen

Clovis Fabricio

Andreas Faerber

Bill Fancher

Michael Farrell

Troy J. Farrell

Mark Favas

Boris Feld

Thomas Fenzl

Niels Ferguson

Sebastian Fernandez

Florian Festi

John Feuerstein

Carl Feynman

Vincent Fiack

Tomer Filiba

Jeffrey Finkelstein

Russell Finn

Dan Finnie

Nils Fischbeck

Frederik Fix

Matt Fleming

Hernán Martínez Foffani

Arnaud Fontaine

Michael Foord

Amaury Forgeot d'Arc

Doug Fort

John Fouhy

Andrew Francis

Stefan Franke

Martin Franklin

Bruce Frederiksen

Robin Friedrich

Bradley Froehle

Ivan Frohne

Matthias Fuchs

Jim Fulton

Tadayoshi Funaba

Gyro Funch

Peter Funk

Ethan Furman

Geoff Furnish

Ulisses Furquim

Hagen Fürstenau

Hallvard B Furuseth

Achim Gaedke

Martin von Gagern

Lele Gaifax

Santiago Gala

Yitzchak Gale

Matthew Gallagher

Quentin Gallet-Gilles

Riccardo Attilio Galli

Raymund Galvin

Nitin Ganatra

Fred Gansevles

Lars Marius Garshol

Dan Gass

Andrew Gaul

Stephen M. Gava

Xavier de Gaye

Harry Henry Gebel

Marius Gedminas

Thomas Gellekum

Gabriel Genellina

Christos Georgiou

Ben Gertzfield

Nadim Ghaznavi

Dinu Gherman

Jonathan Giddy

Johannes Gijsbers

Michael Gilfix

Yannick Gingras

Matt Giuca

Wim Glenn

Michael Goderbauer

Christoph Gohlke

Tim Golden

Guilherme Gonçalves

Tiago Gonçalves

Chris Gonnerman

Shelley Gooch

David Goodger

Hans de Graaff

Nathaniel Gray

Eddy De Greef

Grant Griffin

Andrea Griffini

Duncan Grisby

Fabian Groffen

Eric Groo

Dag Gruneau

Filip Gruszczyński

Thomas Guettler

Michael Guravage

Lars Gustäbel

Thomas Güttler

Jonas H.

Barry Haddow

Philipp Hagemeister

Paul ten Hagen

Rasmus Hahn

Peter Haight

Václav Haisman

Walker Hale IV

Bob Halley

Jesse Hallio

Jun Hamano

Alexandre Hamelin

Anders Hammarquist

Mark Hammond

Harald Hanche-Olsen

Manus Hand

Milton L. Hankins

Stephen Hansen

Barry Hantman

Lynda Hardman

Derek Harland

Jason Harper

Brian Harring

Jonathan Hartley

Travis B. Hartwell

Larry Hastings

Tim Hatch

Shane Hathaway

Janko Hauser

Rycharde Hawkes

Ben Hayden

Jochen Hayek

Henrik Heimbuerger

Christian Heimes

Thomas Heller

Malte Helmert

Lance Finn Helsten

Jonathan Hendry

Michael Henry

James Henstridge

Kasun Herath

Chris Herborth

Ivan Herman

Jürgen Hermann

Gary Herron

Ernie Hershey

Thomas Herve

Bernhard Herzog

Magnus L. Hetland

Raymond Hettinger

Kevan Heydon

Kelsey Hightower

Jason Hildebrand

Richie Hindle

Konrad Hinsen

David Hobley

Tim Hochberg

Joerg-Cyril Hoehle

Gregor Hoffleit

Chris Hoffman

Stefan Hoffmeister

Albert Hofkamp

Tomas Hoger

Jonathan Hogg

Steve Holden

Akintayo Holder

Thomas Holenstein

Gerrit Holl

Shane Holloway

Rune Holm

Thomas Holmes

Philip Homburg

Naofumi Honda

Jeffrey Honig

Rob Hooft

Michiel de Hoon

Brian Hooper

Randall Hopper

Nadav Horesh

Alon Horev

Jan Hosang

Ken Howard

Brad Howes

Mike Hoy

Chih-Hao Huang

Christian Hudon

Lawrence Hudson

Michael Hudson

Jim Hugunin

Greg Humphreys

Eric Huss

Taihyun Hwang

Jeremy Hylton

Ludwig Hähne

Gerhard Häring

Fredrik Håård

Catalin Iacob

Mihai Ibanescu

Ali Ikinci

Aaron Iles

Lars Immisch

Bobby Impollonia

Meador Inge

Tony Ingraldi

John Interrante

Bob Ippolito

Roger Irwin

Atsuo Ishimoto

Adam Jackson

Ben Jackson

Paul Jackson

Manuel Jacob

David Jacobs

Kevin Jacobs

Kjetil Jacobsen

Bertrand Janin

Geert Jansen

Jack Jansen

Bill Janssen

Thomas Jarosch

Juhana Jauhiainen

Rajagopalasarma Jayakrishnan

Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek

Julien Jehannet

Drew Jenkins

Flemming Kjær Jensen

Philip H. Jensen

Philip Jenvey

MunSic Jeong

Chris Jerdonek

Jim Jewett

Pedro Diaz Jimenez

Orjan Johansen

Fredrik Johansson

Gregory K. Johnson

Kent Johnson

Simon Johnston

Matt Joiner

Thomas Jollans

Nicolas Joly

Brian K. Jones

Evan Jones

Jeremy Jones

Richard Jones

Irmen de Jong

Lucas de Jonge

Kristján Valur Jónsson

Jens B. Jorgensen

John Jorgensen

Sijin Joseph

Andreas Jung

Tattoo Mabonzo K.

Sarah K.

Bohuslav Kabrda

Bob Kahn

Kurt B. Kaiser

Tamito Kajiyama

Jan Kaliszewski

Peter van Kampen

Rafe Kaplan

Jacob Kaplan-Moss

Janne Karila

Per Øyvind Karlsen

Anton Kasyanov

Lou Kates

Hiroaki Kawai

Sebastien Keim

Ryan Kelly

Dan Kenigsberg

Randall Kern

Robert Kern

Jim Kerr

Magnus Kessler

Lawrence Kesteloot

Vivek Khera

Mads Kiilerich

Jason Killen

Jan Kim

Taek Joo Kim

W. Trevor King

Paul Kippes

Steve Kirsch

Sebastian Kirsche

Kamil Kisiel

Akira Kitada

Ron Klatchko

Reid Kleckner

Bastian Kleineidam

Bob Kline

Matthias Klose

Jeremy Kloth

Thomas Kluyver

Kim Knapp

Lenny Kneler

Pat Knight

Jeff Knupp

Kubilay Kocak

Greg Kochanski

Damon Kohler

Marko Kohtala

Vajrasky Kok

Guido Kollerie

Jacek Konieczny

Марк Коренберг

Arkady Koplyarov

Peter A. Koren

Vlad Korolev

Joseph Koshy

Daniel Kozan

Jerzy Kozera

Maksim Kozyarchuk

Stefan Krah

Bob Kras

Sebastian Kreft

Holger Krekel

Michael Kremer

Fabian Kreutz

Cédric Krier

Pedro Kroger

Hannu Krosing

Andrej Krpic

Ivan Krstić

Steven Kryskalla

Andrew Kuchling

Dave Kuhlman

Jon Kuhn

Vladimir Kushnir

Erno Kuusela

Ross Lagerwall

Cameron Laird

Thomas Lamb

Jean-Baptiste "Jiba" Lamy

Ronan Lamy

Torsten Landschoff

Łukasz Langa

Tino Lange

Andrew Langmead

Detlef Lannert

Soren Larsen

Amos Latteier

Piers Lauder

Ben Laurie

Simon Law

Julia Lawall

Chris Lawrence

Brian Leair

Mathieu Leduc-Hamel

Christopher Lee

Inyeol Lee

James Lee

John J. Lee

Thomas Lee

Tennessee Leeuwenburg

Luc Lefebvre

Pierre Paul Lefebvre

Glyph Lefkowitz

Vincent Legoll

Kip Lehman

Joerg Lehmann

Robert Lehmann

Petri Lehtinen

Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton

Tshepang Lekhonkhobe

Marc-André Lemburg

Mateusz Lenik

John Lenton

Kostyantyn Leschenko

Christopher Tur Lesniewski-Laas

Alain Leufroy

Mark Levinson

William Lewis

Akira Li

Xuanji Li

Robert van Liere

Ross Light

Shawn Ligocki

Martin Ligr

Gediminas Liktaras

Grant Limberg

Christopher Lindblad

Ulf A. Lindgren

Björn Lindqvist

Per Lindqvist

Eric Lindvall

Gregor Lingl

Everett Lipman

Mirko Liss

Nick Lockwood

Stephanie Lockwood

Hugo Lopes Tavares

Anne Lord

Tom Loredo

Justin Love

Jason Lowe

Tony Lownds

Ray Loyzaga

Lukas Lueg

Loren Luke

Fredrik Lundh

Zhongyue Luo

Mark Lutz

Jim Lynch

Mikael Lyngvig

Martin von Löwis

Guillermo López-Anglada

Jeff MacDonald

John Machin

Andrew I MacIntyre

Tim MacKenzie

Nick Maclaren

Don MacMillen

Steve Majewski

Grzegorz Makarewicz

David Malcolm

Ken Manheimer

Vladimir Marangozov

Colin Marc

Vincent Marchetti

David Marek

Doug Marien

Sven Marnach

Alex Martelli

Anthony Martin

Owen Martin

Westley Martínez

Sébastien Martini

Sidney San Martín

Roger Masse

Nick Mathewson

Simon Mathieu

Laura Matson

Graham Matthews

Dieter Maurer

Daniel May

Madison May

Arnaud Mazin

Rebecca McCreary

Kirk McDonald

Chris McDonough

Greg McFarlane

Alan McIntyre

Jessica McKellar

Michael McLay

Brendan McLoughlin

Mark Mc Mahon

Gordon McMillan

Andrew McNamara

Caolan McNamara

Jeff McNeil

Craig McPheeters

Lambert Meertens

Bill van Melle

Lucas Prado Melo

Ezio Melotti

Doug Mennella

Brian Merrell

Luke Mewburn

Carl Meyer

Mike Meyer

Piotr Meyer

Alexis Métaireau

Steven Miale

Trent Mick

Jason Michalski

Franck Michea

Tom Middleton

Thomas Miedema

Stan Mihai

Stefan Mihaila

Aristotelis Mikropoulos

Paolo Milani

Chad Miller

Damien Miller

Jason V. Miller

Jay T. Miller

Roman Milner

Julien Miotte

Andrii V. Mishkovskyi

Dom Mitchell

Dustin J. Mitchell

Zubin Mithra

Florian Mladitsch

Doug Moen

The Dragon De Monsyne

Skip Montanaro

Peter Moody

Paul Moore

Ross Moore

Ben Morgan

Derek Morr

James A Morrison

Derek McTavish Mounce

Alessandro Moura

Pablo Mouzo

Mher Movsisyan

Ruslan Mstoi

Valentina Mukhamedzhanova

Michael Mulich

Sape Mullender

Sjoerd Mullender

Michael Muller

Neil Muller

Louis Munro

R. David Murray

Matti Mäki

Dale Nagata

John Nagle

Takahiro Nakayama

Travers Naran

Charles-François Natali

Vilmos Nebehaj

Fredrik Nehr

Tony Nelson

Trent Nelson

Chad Netzer

Max Neunhöffer

George Neville-Neil

Hieu Nguyen

Johannes Nicolai

Samuel Nicolary

Jonathan Niehof

Gustavo Niemeyer

Oscar Nierstrasz

Hrvoje Niksic

Gregory Nofi

Jesse Noller

Bill Noon

Stefan Norberg

Tim Northover

Joe Norton

Neal Norwitz

Mikhail Novikov

Michal Nowikowski

Steffen Daode Nurpmeso

Nigel O'Brian

John O'Connor

Kevin O'Connor

Tim O'Malley

Zooko O'Whielacronx

Aaron Oakley

James Oakley

Elena Oat

Jon Oberheide

Pascal Oberndoerfer

Jeffrey Ollie

Adam Olsen

Grant Olson

Koray Oner

Piet van Oostrum

Tomas Oppelstrup

Jason Orendorff

Douglas Orr

Michele Orrù

Oleg Oshmyan

Denis S. Otkidach

Peter Otten

Michael Otteneder

R. M. Oudkerk

Russel Owen

Joonas Paalasmaa

Martin Packman

Shriphani Palakodety

Ondrej Palkovsky

Mike Pall

Todd R. Palmer

Juan David Ibáñez Palomar

Jan Palus

M. Papillon

Peter Parente

Alexandre Parenteau

Dan Parisien

William Park

Heikki Partanen

Harri Pasanen

Gaël Pasgrimaud

Randy Pausch

Samuele Pedroni

Justin Peel

Marcel van der Peijl

Berker Peksag

Andreas Pelme

Steven Pemberton

Bo Peng

Santiago Peresón

George Peristerakis

Mathieu Perreault

Mark Perrego

Trevor Perrin

Gabriel de Perthuis

Tim Peters

Benjamin Peterson

Joe Peterson

Chris Petrilli

Bjorn Pettersen

Justin D. Pettit

Ronny Pfannschmidt

Geoff Philbrick

Gavrie Philipson

Adrian Phillips

Christopher J. Phoenix

Neale Pickett

Jim St. Pierre

Dan Pierson

Martijn Pieters

Anand B. Pillai

François Pinard

Tom Pinckney

Zach Pincus

Michael Piotrowski

Antoine Pitrou

Jean-François Piéronne

Oleg Plakhotnyuk

Remi Pointel

Guilherme Polo

Michael Pomraning

Iustin Pop

Claudiu Popa

John Popplewell

Guillaume Pratte

Amrit Prem

Paul Prescod

Donovan Preston

Paul Price

Jyrki Pulliainen

Steve Purcell

Eduardo Pérez

Fernando Pérez

Pierre Quentel

Brian Quinlan

Anders Qvist

Thomas Rachel

Jérôme Radix

Burton Radons

Jeff Ramnani

Brodie Rao

Antti Rasinen

Sridhar Ratnakumar

Ysj Ray

Eric S. Raymond

Edward K. Ream

Chris Rebert

Marc Recht

John Redford