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.

David Abrahams
Jim Ahlstrom
Farhan Ahmad
Yaniv Aknin
Jyrki Alakuijala
Billy G. Allie
Kevin Altis
Joe Amenta
Mark Anacker
Anders Andersen
John Anderson
Erik Andersén
Oliver Andrich
Ross Andrus
Jason Asbahr
David Ascher
Chris AtLee
John Aycock
Jan-Hein Bührman
Donovan Baarda
Attila Babo
Alfonso Baciero
Marcin Bachry
Dwayne Bailey
Stig Bakken
Greg Ball
Luigi Ballabio
Jeff Balogh
Matt Bandy
Michael J. Barber
Chris Barker
Nick Barnes
Quentin Barnes
Richard Barran
Cesar Eduardo Barros
Des Barry
Ulf Bartelt
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
Andrew Bennetts
Andy Bensky
Michel Van den Bergh
Eric Beser
Steven Bethard
Stephen Bevan
Ron Bickers
Natalia B. Bidart
David Binger
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
Forest Bond
Gregory Bond
Jurjen Bos
Peter Bosch
Eric Bouck
Thierry Bousch
Sebastian Boving
Monty Brandenberg
Georg Brandl
Christopher Brannon
Terrence Brannon
Dave Brennan
Tom Bridgman
Richard Brodie
Daniel Brotsky
Jean Brouwers
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
Lorenzo M. Catucci
Donn Cave
Per Cederqvist
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
Tom Christiansen
Vadim Chugunov
David Cinege
Mike Clarkson
Andrew Clegg
Brad Clements
Steve Clift
Nick Coghlan
Josh Cogliati
Dave Cole
Terrence Cole
Benjamin Collar
Jeffery Collins
Paul Colomiets
Denver Coneybeare
Matt Conway
David M. Cooke
Greg Copeland
Aldo Cortesi
David Costanzo
Scott Cotton
Greg Couch
David Cournapeau
Steve Cousins
Alex Coventry
Matthew Dixon Cowles
Ryan Coyner
Christopher A. Craig
Laura Creighton
Simon Cross
Drew Csillag
Joaquin Cuenca Abela
John Cugini
Tom Culliton
Lisandro Dalcin
Andrew Dalke
Lars Damerow
Evan Dandrea
Eric Daniel
Scott David Daniels
Ben Darnell
Jonathan Dasteel
John DeGood
Ned Deily
Vincent Delft
Arnaud Delobelle
Erik Demaine
Roger Dev
Raghuram Devarakonda
Catherine Devlin
Scott Dial
Toby Dickenson
Mark Dickinson
Jack Diederich
Daniel Diniz
Humberto Diogenes
Yves Dionne
Daniel Dittmar
Jaromir Dolecek
Ismail Donmez
Dima Dorfman
Yves Dorfsman
Cesar Douady
Dean Draayer
Fred L. Drake, Jr.
Derk Drukker
John DuBois
Paul Dubois
Graham Dumpleton
Quinn Dunkan
Robin Dunn
Luke Dunstan
Virgil Dupras
Andy Dustman
Gary Duzan
Eugene Dvurechenski
Josip Dzolonga
Maxim Dzumanenko
Walter Dörwald
Hans Eckardt
Grant Edwards
John Ehresman
Eric Eisner
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
Clovis Fabricio
Andreas Faerber
Bill Fancher
Troy J. Farrell
Mark Favas
Niels Ferguson
Sebastian Fernandez
Vincent Fiack
Tomer Filiba
Jeffrey Finkelstein
Russell Finn
Nils Fischbeck
Frederik Fix
Matt Fleming
Hernán Martínez Foffani
Michael Foord
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc
Doug Fort
John Fouhy
Martin Franklin
Robin Friedrich
Ivan Frohne
Jim Fulton
Tadayoshi Funaba
Gyro Funch
Peter Funk
Geoff Furnish
Ulisses Furquim
Hagen Fürstenau
Hallvard B Furuseth
Achim Gaedke
Martin von Gagern
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
Gabriel Genellina
Christos Georgiou
Ben Gertzfield
Dinu Gherman
Jonathan Giddy
Johannes Gijsbers
Michael Gilfix
Tim Golden
Chris Gonnerman
David Goodger
Hans de Graaff
Eddy De Greef
Duncan Grisby
Fabian Groffen
Dag Gruneau
Filip Gruszczyński
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
Ben Hayden
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
Tomas Hoger
Jonathan Hogg
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
Chih-Hao Huang
Lawrence Hudson
Michael Hudson
Jim Hugunin
Greg Humphreys
Eric Huss
Jeremy Hylton
Gerhard Häring
Fredrik Håård
Mihai Ibanescu
Lars Immisch
Bobby Impollonia
Meador Inge
Tony Ingraldi
John Interrante
Bob Ippolito
Atsuo Ishimoto
Paul Jackson
Ben Jackson
David Jacobs
Kevin Jacobs
Kjetil Jacobsen
Bertrand Janin
Geert Jansen
Jack Jansen
Bill Janssen
Drew Jenkins
Flemming Kjær Jensen
Jiba
Orjan Johansen
Fredrik Johansson
Gregory K. Johnson
Simon Johnston
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.
Bob Kahn
Kurt B. Kaiser
Tamito Kajiyama
Peter van Kampen
Jacob Kaplan-Moss
Piotr Kasprzyk
Lou Kates
Hiroaki Kawai
Sebastien Keim
Ryan Kelly
Robert Kern
Randall Kern
Magnus Kessler
Lawrence Kesteloot
Vivek Khera
Akira Kitada
Mads Kiilerich
Taek Joo Kim
W. Trevor King
Paul Kippes
Steve Kirsch
Sebastian Kirsche
Ron Klatchko
Bastian Kleineidam
Bob Kline
Matthias Klose
Kim Knapp
Lenny Kneler
Pat Knight
Greg Kochanski
Damon Kohler
Joseph Koshy
Maksim Kozyarchuk
Bob Kras
Holger Krekel
Michael Kremer
Fabian Kreutz
Hannu Krosing
Andrej Krpic
Ivan Krstić
Andrew Kuchling
Vladimir Kushnir
Ross Lagerwall
Cameron Laird
Łukasz Langa
Tino Lange
Andrew Langmead
Detlef Lannert
Soren Larsen
Piers Lauder
Ben Laurie
Simon Law
Chris Lawrence
Brian Leair
James Lee
John J. Lee
Inyeol Lee
Thomas Lee
Christopher Lee
Tennessee Leeuwenburg
Luc Lefebvre
Vincent Legoll
Kip Lehman
Joerg Lehmann
Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
Marc-Andre Lemburg
John Lenton
Christopher Tur Lesniewski-Laas
Mark Levinson
William Lewis
Xuanji Li
Robert van Liere
Ross Light
Shawn Ligocki
Martin Ligr
Grant Limberg
Christopher Lindblad
Björn Lindqvist
Per Lindqvist
Eric Lindvall
Gregor Lingl
Nick Lockwood
Stephanie Lockwood
Anne Lord
Tom Loredo
Jason Lowe
Tony Lownds
Ray Loyzaga
Lukas Lueg
Loren Luke
Fredrik Lundh
Mark Lutz
Jim Lynch
Mikael Lyngvig
Martin von Löwis
Andrew I MacIntyre
Tim MacKenzie
Nick Maclaren
Don MacMillen
Steve Majewski
Grzegorz Makarewicz
David Malcolm
Ken Manheimer
Vladimir Marangozov
David Marek
Doug Marien
Alex Martelli
Anthony Martin
Sébastien Martini
Roger Masse
Nick Mathewson
Graham Matthews
Dieter Maurer
Arnaud Mazin
Kirk McDonald
Chris McDonough
Greg McFarlane
Alan McIntyre
Michael McLay
Mark Mc Mahon
Gordon McMillan
Caolan McNamara
Andrew McNamara
Craig McPheeters
Lambert Meertens
Bill van Melle
Lucas Prado Melo
Brian Merrell
Luke Mewburn
Mike Meyer
Steven Miale
Trent Mick
Stan Mihai
Aristotelis Mikropoulos
Damien Miller
Chad Miller
Jason V. Miller
Jay T. Miller
Roman Milner
Andrii V. Mishkovskyi
Dustin J. Mitchell
Dom Mitchell
Doug Moen
The Dragon De Monsyne
Skip Montanaro
Paul Moore
Derek Morr
James A Morrison
Sjoerd Mullender
Sape Mullender
Michael Muller
R. David Murray
Piotr Meyer
John Nagle
Takahiro Nakayama
Travers Naran
Charles-François Natali
Fredrik Nehr
Trent Nelson
Tony Nelson
Chad Netzer
Max Neunhöffer
George Neville-Neil
Johannes Nicolai
Samuel Nicolary
Gustavo Niemeyer
Oscar Nierstrasz
Hrvoje Niksic
Jesse Noller
Bill Noon
Stefan Norberg
Tim Northover
Joe Norton
Neal Norwitz
Michal Nowikowski
Steffen Daode Nurpmeso
Nigel O'Brian
Kevin O'Connor
Tim O'Malley
Pascal Oberndoerfer
Jeffrey Ollie
Adam Olsen
Grant Olson
Piet van Oostrum
Jason Orendorff
Douglas Orr
Michele Orrù
Denis S. Otkidach
Michael Otteneder
R. M. Oudkerk
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
Santiago Peresón
Mark Perrego
Trevor Perrin
Gabriel de Perthuis
Tim Peters
Benjamin Peterson
Joe 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
Brodie Rao
Antti Rasinen
Sridhar Ratnakumar
Eric Raymond
Edward K. Ream
Chris Rebert
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
Armin Ronacher
Case Roole
Timothy Roscoe
Jim Roskind
Just van Rossum
Hugo van Rossum
Saskia van Rossum
Donald Wallace Rouse II
Liam Routt
Craig Rowland
Clinton Roy
Paul Rubin
Sam Ruby
Audun S. Runde
Rauli Ruohonen
Jeff Rush
Sam Rushing
Mark Russell
Nick Russo
Sébastien Sablé
Hajime Saitou
George Sakkis
Rich Salz
Kevin Samborn
Ilya Sandler
Mark Sapiro
Ty Sarna
Ben Sayer
Michael Scharf
Andreas Schawo
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
Roger D. Serwy
Jerry Seutter
Denis Severson
Ian Seyer
Ha Shao
Bruce Sherwood
Alexander Shigin
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
Victor Stinner
Richard Stoakley
Peter Stoehr
Casper Stoel
Michael Stone
Ken Stox
Dan Stromberg
Daniel Stutzbach
Pal Subbiah
Nathan Sullivan
Mark Summerfield
Hisao Suzuki
Andrew Svetlov
Kalle Svensson
Andrew Svetlov
Paul Swartz
Thenault Sylvain
Péter Szabó
Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis
Geoff Talvola
Musashi Tamura
William Tanksley
Christian Tanzer
Steven Taschuk
Monty Taylor
Amy Taylor
Mikhail Terekhov
Tobias Thelen
James Thomas
Robin Thomas
Eric Tiedemann
Tracy Tims
Oren Tirosh
Jason Tishler
Christian Tismer
Frank J. Tobin
R Lindsay Todd
Bennett Todd
Sandro Tosi
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
Andi Vajda
Kyle VanderBeek
Atul Varma
Dmitry Vasiliev
Alexandre Vassalotti
Frank Vercruesse
Mike Verdone
Jaap Vermeulen
Nikita Vetoshkin
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
Rodrigo Steinmuller Wanderley
Greg Ward
Barry Warsaw
Steve Waterbury
Bob Watson
David Watson
Aaron Watters
Henrik Weber
Corran Webster
Stefan Wehr
Zack Weinberg
Edward Welbourne
Cliff Wells
Rickard Westman
Jeff Wheeler
Christopher White
David White
Mats Wichmann
Truida Wiedijk
Felix Wiemann
Gerry Wiener
Frank Wierzbicki
Bryce "Zooko" Wilcox-O'Hearn
Jason Williams
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
Chris Withers
Stefan Witzel
Irek Wlizlo
David Wolever
Klaus-Juergen Wolf
Dan Wolfe
Richard Wolff
Darren Worrall
Gordon Worley
Thomas Wouters
Heiko Wundram
Doug Wyatt
Hirokazu Yamamoto
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
Kai Zhu
Tarek Ziadé
Peter Åstrand