| 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. |
| |
| Jim Ahlstrom |
| Jyrki Alakuijala |
| Mark Anacker |
| Anders Andersen |
| Oliver Andrich |
| Ross Andrus |
| Jason Asbahr |
| David Ascher |
| Stig Bakken |
| Greg Ball |
| Des Barry |
| Ulf Bartelt |
| Jeff Bauer |
| Anthony Baxter |
| Samuel L. Bayer |
| Donald Beaudry |
| David Beazley |
| Neal Becker |
| Reimer Behrends |
| Thomas Bellman |
| Andy Bensky |
| Eric Beser |
| Stephen Bevan |
| Ron Bickers |
| Dominic Binks |
| Roy Bixler |
| Pablo Bleyer |
| Finn Bock |
| Paul Boddie |
| Jurjen Bos |
| Peter Bosch |
| Eric Bouck |
| Thierry Bousch |
| Monty Brandenberg |
| Terrence Brannon |
| Dave Brennan |
| Gary S. Brown |
| Oleg Broytmann |
| Stan Bubrouski |
| Erik de Bueger |
| Jan-Hein B"uhrman |
| Dick Bulterman |
| Bill Bumgarner |
| Tommy Burnette |
| Roger Burnham |
| Lee Busby |
| Ralph Butler |
| Daniel Calvelo |
| Mike Carlton |
| Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton |
| Donn Cave |
| Per Cederqvist |
| Jeffrey Chang |
| Brad Chapman |
| Mitch Chapman |
| David Chaum |
| Nicolas Chauvat |
| Albert Chin-A-Young |
| Tom Christiansen |
| Vadim Chugunov |
| Mike Clarkson |
| Steve Clift |
| Dave Cole |
| Benjamin Collar |
| Jeffery Collins |
| Matt Conway |
| Scott Cotton |
| Greg Couch |
| Steve Cousins |
| Drew Csillag |
| Tom Culliton |
| John Cugini |
| Andrew Dalke |
| Lars Damerow |
| Eric Daniel |
| Jonathan Dasteel |
| John DeGood |
| Roger Dev |
| Toby Dickenson |
| Daniel Dittmar |
| Jaromir Dolecek |
| Fred Drake |
| John DuBois |
| Paul Dubois |
| Robin Dunn |
| Andy Dustman |
| Gary Duzan |
| Eugene Dvurechenski |
| Hans Eckardt |
| Grant Edwards |
| Lance Ellinghaus |
| David Ely |
| Jeff Epler |
| 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 |
| Mark Favas |
| Niels Ferguson |
| Sebastian Fernandez |
| Nils Fischbeck |
| Doug Fort |
| Robin Friedrich |
| Ivan Frohne |
| Jim Fulton |
| Geoff Furnish |
| Tadayoshi Funaba |
| Peter Funk |
| Lele Gaifax |
| Raymund Galvin |
| Fred Gansevles |
| Lars Marius Garshol |
| Harry Henry Gebel |
| Thomas Gellekum |
| Ben Gertzfield |
| Jonathan Giddy |
| Hans de Graaff |
| Duncan Grisby |
| Dag Gruneau |
| Michael Guravage |
| Barry Haddow |
| Paul ten Hagen |
| Rasmus Hahn |
| Peter Haight |
| Jesse Hallio |
| Jun Hamano |
| Mark Hammond |
| Manus Hand |
| Milton L. Hankins |
| Barry Hantman |
| Lynda Hardman |
| Jason Harper |
| Larry Hastings |
| Rycharde Hawkes |
| Jochen Hayek |
| Thomas Heller |
| Lance Finn Helsten |
| Jonathan Hendry |
| James Henstridge |
| Chris Herborth |
| Ivan Herman |
| Gary Herron |
| Bernhard Herzog |
| Magnus L. Hetland |
| Kevan Heydon |
| Konrad Hinsen |
| David Hobley |
| Tim Hochberg |
| Joerg-Cyril Hoehle |
| Gregor Hoffleit |
| Chris Hoffman |
| Albert Hofkamp |
| Gerrit Holl |
| Philip Homburg |
| 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 |
| Jeremy Hylton |
| John Interrante |
| Ben Jackson |
| Paul Jackson |
| Jack Jansen |
| Bill Janssen |
| Drew Jenkins |
| Orjan Johansen |
| Simon Johnston |
| Richard Jones |
| Lucas de Jonge |
| John Jorgensen |
| Andreas Jung |
| Bob Kahn |
| Tamito Kajiyama |
| Lou Kates |
| Randall Kern |
| Magnus Kessler |
| Lawrence Kesteloot |
| Vivek Khera |
| Mads Kiilerich |
| Steve Kirsch |
| Ron Klatchko |
| Bastian Kleineidam |
| Matthias Klose |
| Kim Knapp |
| Lenny Kneler |
| Pat Knight |
| Greg Kochanski |
| Joseph Koshy |
| Bob Kras |
| Hannu Krosing |
| Andrew Kuchling |
| Vladimir Kushnir |
| Cameron Laird |
| Detlef Lannert |
| Soren Larsen |
| Piers Lauder |
| Chris Lawrence |
| Kip Lehman |
| Marc-Andre Lemburg |
| William Lewis |
| Robert van Liere |
| Christopher Lindblad |
| Eric Lindvall |
| Per Lindqvist |
| Nick Lockwood |
| Stephanie Lockwood |
| Martin von Löwis |
| Anne Lord |
| Tony Lownds |
| Ray Loyzaga |
| Fredrik Lundh |
| Loren Luke |
| Mark Lutz |
| Jim Lynch |
| Mikael Lyngvig |
| Nick Maclaren |
| Tim MacKenzie |
| Steve Majewski |
| Grzegorz Makarewicz |
| Ken Manheimer |
| Vladimir Marangozov |
| Doug Marien |
| Anthony Martin |
| Roger Masse |
| Nick Mathewson |
| Graham Matthews |
| Dieter Maurer |
| Greg McFarlane |
| Michael McLay |
| Caolan McNamara |
| Craig McPheeters |
| Lambert Meertens |
| Bill van Melle |
| Mike Meyer |
| Steven Miale |
| Trent Mick |
| Roman Milner |
| Dom Mitchell |
| Doug Moen |
| The Dragon De Monsyne |
| Skip Montanaro |
| Sape Mullender |
| Sjoerd Mullender |
| Takahiro Nakayama |
| Fredrik Nehr |
| Chad Netzer |
| George Neville-Neil |
| Oscar Nierstrasz |
| Hrvoje Niksic |
| Bill Noon |
| Stefan Norberg |
| Jeffrey Ollie |
| Nigel O'Brian |
| Tim O'Malley |
| Denis S. Otkidach |
| Piet van Oostrum |
| Jason Orendorff |
| Todd R. Palmer |
| Harri Pasanen |
| Randy Pausch |
| Marcel van der Peijl |
| Steven Pemberton |
| Tim Peters |
| Chris Petrilli |
| Geoff Philbrick |
| Adrian Phillips |
| Christopher J. Phoenix |
| Neale Pickett |
| Dan Pierson |
| François Pinard |
| Amrit Prem |
| Paul Prescod |
| Eric Raymond |
| John Redford |
| Terry Reedy |
| Ofir Reichenberg |
| Sean Reifschneider |
| Michael P. Reilly |
| Bernhard Reiter |
| Steven Reiz |
| Jan Pieter Riegel |
| Nicholas Riley |
| Jean-Claude Rimbault |
| Andy Robinson |
| Jim Robinson |
| Mike Romberg |
| Case Roole |
| Timothy Roscoe |
| Craig Rowland |
| Jim Roskind |
| Just van Rossum |
| Hugo van Rossum |
| Saskia van Rossum |
| Donald Wallace Rouse II |
| Audun S. Runde |
| Jeff Rush |
| Sam Rushing |
| Nick Russo |
| Kevin Samborn |
| Ty Sarna |
| Ben Sayer |
| Michael Scharf |
| Peter Schneider-Kamp |
| Sam Schulenburg |
| Neil Schemenauer |
| David Scherer |
| Gregor Schmid |
| Barry Scott |
| Nick Seidenman |
| Fred Sells |
| Denis Severson |
| Bruce Sherwood |
| Michael Shiplett |
| John W. Shipman |
| Joel Shprentz |
| Eric Siegerman |
| Paul Sijben |
| Nathan Paul Simons |
| Janne Sinkkonen |
| George Sipe |
| Kragen Sitaker |
| Rafal Smotrzyk |
| Dirk Soede |
| Paul Sokolovsky |
| Clay Spence |
| Per Spilling |
| Greg Stein |
| Dan Stromberg |
| Nathan Sullivan |
| Kalle Svensson |
| Hajime Saitou |
| RajGopal Srinivasan |
| Jim St. Pierre |
| Quentin Stafford-Fraser |
| Frank Stajano |
| Richard Stoakley |
| Casper Stoel |
| Peter Stoehr |
| Ken Stox |
| Christian Tanzer |
| Amy Taylor |
| Tobias Thelen |
| Eric Tiedemann |
| Tracy Tims |
| Jason Tishler |
| Christian Tismer |
| R Lindsay Todd |
| Bennett Todd |
| Laurence Tratt |
| John Tromp |
| Jason Trowbridge |
| Stephen Turner |
| Bill Tutt |
| Jaap Vermeulen |
| Al Vezza |
| John Viega |
| Kannan Vijayan |
| Kurt Vile |
| Norman Vine |
| Frank Visser |
| Charles Waldman |
| Richard Walker |
| Larry Wall |
| Greg Ward |
| Barry Warsaw |
| Steve Waterbury |
| Aaron Watters |
| Bob Watson |
| Edward Welbourne |
| Rickard Westman |
| Truida Wiedijk |
| Gerry Wiener |
| Sue Williams |
| Frank Willison |
| Greg V. Wilson |
| Dik Winter |
| Blake Winton |
| Jean-Claude Wippler |
| Lars Wirzenius |
| Stefan Witzel |
| Klaus-Juergen Wolf |
| Dan Wolfe |
| Richard Wolff |
| Thomas Wouters |
| Doug Wyatt |
| Ka-Ping Yee |
| Bob Yodlowski |
| Masazumi Yoshikawa |
| Moshe Zadka |
| Milan Zamazal |
| Siebren van der Zee |
| Uwe Zessin |