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

David Abrahams

Ron Adam

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

Jérémy Anger

Jon Anglin

Heidi Annexstad

Éric Araujo

Alicia Arlen

Jason Asbahr

David Ascher

Chris AtLee

John Aycock

Jan-Hein Bührman

Donovan Baarda

Arne Babenhauserheide

Attila Babo

Alfonso Baciero

Marcin Bachry

Dwayne Bailey

Stig Bakken

Greg Ball

Luigi Ballabio

Jeff Balogh

Manuel Balsera

Matt Bandy

Michael J. Barber

Daniel Barclay

Nicolas Bareil

Chris Barker

Anton Barkovsky

Nick Barnes

Quentin Barnes

Richard Barran

Cesar Eduardo Barros

Des Barry

Ulf Bartelt

Don Bashford

Nick Bastin

Jeff Bauer

Mike Bayer

Michael R Bax

Anthony Baxter

Samuel L. Bayer

Donald Beaudry

David Beazley

Robin Becker

Neal 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

Michel Van den Bergh

Julian Berman

Brice Berna

Eric Beser

Steven Bethard

Stephen Bevan

Ron Bickers

Natalia B. Bidart

Adrian von Bidder

David Binger

Dominic Binks

Philippe Biondi

Stuart Bishop

Roy Bixler

Jonathan Black

Mike Bland

Martin Bless

Pablo Bleyer

Erik van Blokland

Eric Blossom

Finn Bock

Paul Boddie

Matthew Boedicker

Robin Boerdijk

David Bolen

Forest Bond

Gawain Bolton

Gregory Bond

Jurjen Bos

Peter Bosch

Eric Bouck

Thierry Bousch

Sebastian Boving

Michal Bozon

Jeff Bradberry

Aaron Brancotti

Monty Brandenberg

Georg Brandl

Christopher Brannon

Terrence Brannon

Brian Brazil

Dave Brennan

Tom Bridgman

Keith Briggs

Tobias Brink

Richard Brodie

Michael Broghton

Daniel Brotsky

Jean Brouwers

Gary S. Brown

Oleg Broytmann

Dave Brueck

Francisco Martín Brugué

Ian Bruntlett

Floris Bruynooghe

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

Arnaud Calmettes

Daniel Calvelo

Tony Campbell

Brett Cannon

Mike Carlton

Terry Carroll

Damien Cassou

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

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

Mauro Cicognini

David Cinege

Craig Citro

Gilles Civario

Mike Clarkson

Andrew Clegg

Brad Clements

Steve Clift

Hervé Coatanhay

Nick Coghlan

Josh Cogliati

Dave Cole

Terrence Cole

Benjamin Collar

Jeffery Collins

Robert Collins

Paul Colomiets

Denver Coneybeare

Geremy Condra

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

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

Andrew Dalke

Lars Damerow

Evan Dandrea

Eric Daniel

Scott David Daniels

Ben Darnell

Kushal Das

Jonathan Dasteel

John DeGood

Ned Deily

Vincent Delft

Arnaud Delobelle

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

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

Grant Edwards

John Ehresman

Tal Einat

Eric Eisner

Andrew Eland

Julien Élie

Lance Ellinghaus

David Ely

Jeff Epler

Tom Epperly

Stoffel Erasmus

Jürgen A. Erhard

Michael Ernst

Ben Escoto

Andy Eskilsson

Stefan Esser

Nicolas Estibals

Stephen D Evans

Carey Evans

Tim Everett

Paul Everitt

David Everly

Daniel Evers

Greg Ewing

Martijn Faassen

Clovis Fabricio

Andreas Faerber

Bill Fancher

Troy J. Farrell

Mark Favas

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

Stefan Franke

Martin Franklin

Robin Friedrich

Bradley Froehle

Ivan Frohne

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

Matt Giuca

Christoph Gohlke

Tim Golden

Guilherme Gonçalves

Chris Gonnerman

Shelley Gooch

David Goodger

Hans de Graaff

Nathaniel Gray

Eddy De Greef

Grant Griffin

Duncan Grisby

Fabian Groffen

Eric Groo

Dag Gruneau

Filip Gruszczyński

Thomas Guettler

Michael Guravage

Lars Gustäbel

Thomas Güttler

Barry Haddow

Philipp Hagemeister

Paul ten Hagen

Rasmus Hahn

Peter Haight

Václav Haisman

Bob Halley

Jesse Hallio

Jun Hamano

Anders Hammarquist

Mark Hammond

Harald Hanche-Olsen

Manus Hand

Milton L. Hankins

Stephen Hansen

Barry Hantman

Lynda Hardman

Derek Harland

Jason Harper

Brian Harring

Travis B. Hartwell

Larry Hastings

Tim Hatch

Shane Hathaway

Janko Hauser

Rycharde Hawkes

Ben Hayden

Jochen Hayek

Christian Heimes

Thomas Heller

Malte Helmert

Lance Finn Helsten

Jonathan Hendry

James Henstridge

Kasun Herath

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

Michael Henry

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

Philip Homburg

Naofumi Honda

Jeffrey Honig

Rob Hooft

Michiel de Hoon

Brian Hooper

Randall Hopper

Nadav Horesh

Jan Hosang

Ken Howard

Brad Howes

Mike Hoy

Chih-Hao Huang

Lawrence Hudson

Michael Hudson

Jim Hugunin

Greg Humphreys

Eric Huss

Jeremy Hylton

Ludwig Hähne

Gerhard Häring

Fredrik Håård

Mihai Ibanescu

Ali Ikinci

Lars Immisch

Bobby Impollonia

Meador Inge

Tony Ingraldi

John Interrante

Bob Ippolito

Roger Irwin

Atsuo Ishimoto

Adam Jackson

Ben Jackson

Paul Jackson

David Jacobs

Kevin Jacobs

Kjetil Jacobsen

Bertrand Janin

Geert Jansen

Jack Jansen

Bill Janssen

Thomas Jarosch

Zbyszek Jędrzejewski-Szmek

Drew Jenkins

Flemming Kjær Jensen

Philip H. Jensen

MunSic Jeong

Chris Jerdonek

Pedro Diaz Jimenez

Orjan Johansen

Fredrik Johansson

Gregory K. Johnson

Kent Johnson

Simon Johnston

Matt Joiner

Thomas Jollans

Nicolas Joly

Evan Jones

Jeremy Jones

Richard Jones

Irmen de Jong

Lucas de Jonge

John Jorgensen

Jens B. Jorgensen

Sijin Joseph

Andreas Jung

Tattoo Mabonzo K.

Bohuslav Kabrda

Bob Kahn

Kurt B. Kaiser

Tamito Kajiyama

Peter van Kampen

Rafe Kaplan

Jacob Kaplan-Moss

Jan Kaliszewski

Lou Kates

Hiroaki Kawai

Sebastien Keim

Ryan Kelly

Dan Kenigsberg

Robert Kern

Randall Kern

Jim Kerr

Magnus Kessler

Lawrence Kesteloot

Vivek Khera

Mads Kiilerich

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

Greg Kochanski

Damon Kohler

Marko Kohtala

Guido Kollerie

Arkady Koplyarov

Peter A. Koren

Vlad Korolev

Joseph Koshy

Daniel Kozan

Jerzy Kozera

Maksim Kozyarchuk

Stefan Krah

Bob Kras

Holger Krekel

Michael Kremer

Fabian Kreutz

Cédric Krier

Hannu Krosing

Andrej Krpic

Ivan Krstić

Andrew Kuchling

Dave Kuhlman

Vladimir Kushnir

Erno Kuusela

Ross Lagerwall

Cameron Laird

Thomas Lamb

Jean-Baptiste "Jiba" Lamy

Torsten Landschoff

Łukasz Langa

Tino Lange

Andrew Langmead

Detlef Lannert

Soren Larsen

Piers Lauder

Ben Laurie

Simon Law

Julia Lawall

Chris Lawrence

Brian Leair

James Lee

John J. Lee

Inyeol Lee

Thomas Lee

Christopher Lee

Tennessee Leeuwenburg

Luc Lefebvre

Glyph Lefkowitz

Vincent Legoll

Kip Lehman

Joerg Lehmann

Robert Lehmann

Petri Lehtinen

Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton

Tshepang Lekhonkhobe

Marc-André Lemburg

John Lenton

Christopher Tur Lesniewski-Laas

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

Anne Lord

Tom Loredo

Justin Love

Jason Lowe

Tony Lownds

Ray Loyzaga

Lukas Lueg

Loren Luke

Fredrik Lundh

Mark Lutz

Jim Lynch

Mikael Lyngvig

Martin von Löwis

Jeff MacDonald

John Machin

Andrew I MacIntyre

Tim MacKenzie

Nick Maclaren

Don MacMillen

Steve Majewski

Grzegorz Makarewicz

David Malcolm

Ken Manheimer

Vladimir Marangozov

Vincent Marchetti

David Marek

Doug Marien

Sven Marnach

Alex Martelli

Anthony Martin

Owen Martin

Westley Martínez

Sébastien Martini

Roger Masse

Nick Mathewson

Laura Matson

Graham Matthews

Dieter Maurer

Daniel May

Arnaud Mazin

Rebecca McCreary

Kirk McDonald

Chris McDonough

Greg McFarlane

Alan McIntyre

Michael McLay

Mark Mc Mahon

Gordon McMillan

Caolan McNamara

Andrew 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

Steven Miale

Trent Mick

Tom Middleton

Stan Mihai

Stefan Mihaila

Aristotelis Mikropoulos

Paolo Milani

Damien Miller

Chad Miller

Jason V. Miller

Jay T. Miller

Roman Milner

Andrii V. Mishkovskyi

Dustin J. Mitchell

Dom Mitchell

Florian Mladitsch

Doug Moen

The Dragon De Monsyne

Skip Montanaro

Paul Moore

Ross Moore

Derek Morr

James A Morrison

Alessandro Moura

Pablo Mouzo

Mher Movsisyan

Ruslan Mstoi

Sjoerd Mullender

Sape Mullender

Michael Muller

Neil Muller

R. David Murray

Piotr Meyer

Dale Nagata

John Nagle

Takahiro Nakayama

Travers Naran

Charles-François Natali

Vilmos Nebehaj

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

Mikhail Novikov

Michal Nowikowski

Steffen Daode Nurpmeso

Nigel O'Brian

John O'Connor

Kevin O'Connor

Tim O'Malley

Zooko O'Whielacronx

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

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

Harri Pasanen

Bo Peng

Joe Peterson

Randy Pausch

Samuele Pedroni

Marcel van der Peijl

Steven Pemberton

Santiago Peresón

Mark Perrego

Trevor Perrin

Gabriel de Perthuis

Tim Peters

Benjamin Peterson

Joe Peterson

Chris Petrilli

Bjorn Pettersen

Justin D. Pettit

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

Oleg Plakhotnyuk

Guilherme Polo

Michael Pomraning

Iustin Pop

Claudiu Popa

John Popplewell

Amrit Prem

Paul Prescod

Donovan Preston

Jyrki Pulliainen

Steve Purcell

Fernando Pérez

Eduardo Pérez

Pierre Quentel

Brian Quinlan

Anders Qvist

Burton Radons

Jeff Ramnani

Brodie Rao

Antti Rasinen

Sridhar Ratnakumar

Ysj Ray

Eric S. Raymond

Edward K. Ream

Chris Rebert

Marc Recht

John Redford

Terry J. Reedy

Gareth Rees

Steve Reeves

Lennart Regebro

Ofir Reichenberg

Sean Reifschneider

Michael P. Reilly

Bernhard Reiter

Steven Reiz

Roeland Rengelink

Flávio Ribeiro

Tim Rice

Francesco Ricciardi

Jan Pieter Riegel

Armin Rigo

Nicholas Riley

Jean-Claude Rimbault

Vlad Riscutia

Wes Rishel

Juan M. Bello Rivas

Davide Rizzo

Anthony Roach

Carl Robben

Mark Roberts

Jim Robinson

Andy Robinson

Mark Roddy

Kevin Rodgers

Giampaolo Rodola

Adi Roiban

Mike Romberg

Armin Ronacher

Case Roole

Timothy Roscoe

Jim Roskind

Guido van Rossum

Just van Rossum

Hugo van Rossum

Saskia van Rossum

Donald Wallace Rouse II

Liam Routt

Todd Rovito

Craig Rowland

Clinton Roy

Paul Rubin

Sam Ruby

Demur Rumed

Audun S. Runde

Rauli Ruohonen

Jeff Rush

Sam Rushing

Mark Russell

Nick Russo

Chris Ryland

Constantina S.

Sébastien Sablé

Suman Saha

Hajime Saitou

George Sakkis

Rich Salz

Kevin Samborn

Adrian Sampson

Ilya Sandler

Mark Sapiro

Ty Sarna

Hugh Sasse

Bob Savage

Ben Sayer

sbt

Marco Scataglini

Andrew Schaaf

Michael Scharf

Andreas Schawo

Neil Schemenauer

David Scherer

Hynek Schlawack

Bob Schmertz

Gregor Schmid

Ralf Schmitt

Michael Schneider

Peter Schneider-Kamp

Arvin Schnell

Scott Schram

Robin Schreiber

Chad J. Schroeder

Sam Schulenburg

Stefan Schwarzer

Dietmar Schwertberger

Federico Schwindt

Steven Scott

Barry Scott

Nick Seidenman

Žiga Seilnacht

Yury Selivanov

Fred Sells

Jiwon Seo

Joakim Sernbrant

Roger Serwy

Jerry Seutter

Pete Sevander

Denis Severson

Ian Seyer

Ha Shao

Mark Shannon

Richard Shapiro

Justin Sheehy

Charlie Shepherd

Bruce Sherwood

Alexander Shigin

Pete Shinners

Michael Shiplett

John W. Shipman

Joel Shprentz

Itamar Shtull-Trauring

Yue Shuaijie

Eric Siegerman

Paul Sijben

SilentGhost

Tim Silk

Michael Simcich

Ionel Simionescu

Kirill Simonov

Nathan Paul Simons

Janne Sinkkonen

Ng Pheng Siong

George Sipe

J. Sipprell

Kragen Sitaker

Michael Sloan

Eric V. Smith

Christopher Smith

Gregory P. Smith

Roy Smith

Rafal Smotrzyk

Dirk Soede

Paul Sokolovsky

Cody Somerville