Maintainers Index
=================

.. warning::

   This document is out of date and replaced by another version in the
   developer's guide at http://docs.python.org/devguide/experts

This document has tables that list Python Modules, Tools, Platforms and
Interest Areas and names for each item that indicate a maintainer or an
expert in the field.  This list is intended to be used by issue submitters,
issue triage people, and other issue participants to find people to add to
the nosy list or to contact directly by email for help and decisions on
feature requests and bug fixes.  People on this list may be asked to render
final judgement on a feature or bug.  If no active maintainer is listed for
a given module, then questionable changes should go to python-dev, while
any other issues can and should be decided by any committer.

Unless a name is followed by a '*', you should never assign an issue to
that person, only make them nosy.  Names followed by a '*' may be assigned
issues involving the module or topic.

The Platform and Interest Area tables list broader fields in which various
people have expertise.  These people can also be contacted for help,
opinions, and decisions when issues involve their areas.

If a listed maintainer does not respond to requests for comment for an
extended period (three weeks or more), they should be marked as inactive
in this list by placing the word 'inactive' in parenthesis behind their
tracker id.  They are of course free to remove that inactive mark at
any time.

Committers should update these tables as their areas of expertise widen.
New topics may be added to the Interest Area table at will.

The existence of this list is not meant to indicate that these people
*must* be contacted for decisions; it is, rather, a resource to be used
by non-committers to find responsible parties, and by committers who do
not feel qualified to make a decision in a particular context.

See also `PEP 291`_ and `PEP 360`_ for information about certain modules
with special rules.

.. _`PEP 291`: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0291/
.. _`PEP 360`: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0360/


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Module              Maintainers
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__future__
__main__            gvanrossum
_dummy_thread       brett.cannon
_thread             pitrou
abc
aifc                r.david.murray
argparse            bethard
array
ast
asynchat            josiahcarlson, giampaolo.rodola, stutzbach
asyncore            josiahcarlson, giampaolo.rodola, stutzbach
atexit
audioop
base64
bdb
binascii
binhex
bisect              rhettinger
builtins
bz2
calendar            rhettinger
cgi
cgitb
chunk
cmath               mark.dickinson
cmd
code
codecs              lemburg, doerwalter
codeop
collections         rhettinger
collections._abcoll rhettinger, stutzbach
colorsys
compileall
configparser        lukasz.langa
contextlib          ncoghlan
copy                alexandre.vassalotti
copyreg             alexandre.vassalotti
cProfile
crypt               jafo*
csv                 skip.montanaro
ctypes              theller
curses
datetime            belopolsky
dbm
decimal             facundobatista, rhettinger, mark.dickinson
difflib             tim_one (inactive)
dis
distutils           tarek*, eric.araujo*
doctest             tim_one (inactive)
dummy_threading     brett.cannon
email               barry, r.david.murray*
encodings           lemburg, loewis
errno
exceptions
fcntl
filecmp
fileinput
fnmatch
formatter
fpectl
fractions           mark.dickinson, rhettinger
ftplib              giampaolo.rodola
functools           ncoghlan, rhettinger
gc                  pitrou
getopt
getpass
gettext             loewis
glob
grp
gzip
hashlib
heapq               rhettinger, stutzbach
hmac
html
http
idlelib             kbk
imaplib
imghdr
imp
importlib           brett.cannon
inspect
io                  pitrou, benjamin.peterson, stutzbach
itertools           rhettinger
json                bob.ippolito (inactive), rhettinger
keyword
lib2to3             benjamin.peterson
linecache
locale              loewis, lemburg
logging             vinay.sajip
macpath
mailbox
mailcap
marshal
math                mark.dickinson, rhettinger, stutzbach
mimetypes
mmap
modulefinder        theller, jvr
msilib              loewis
msvcrt
multiprocessing     jnoller
netrc
nis
nntplib             pitrou
numbers
operator
optparse            aronacher
os                  loewis
ossaudiodev
parser
pdb                 georg.brandl*
pickle              alexandre.vassalotti, pitrou
pickletools         alexandre.vassalotti
pipes
pkgutil
platform            lemburg
plistlib
poplib
posix
pprint              fdrake
profile             georg.brandl
pstats              georg.brandl
pty
pwd
py_compile
pybench             lemburg, pitrou
pyclbr
pydoc
queue               rhettinger
quopri
random              rhettinger
re                  effbot (inactive), pitrou, ezio.melotti
readline
reprlib
resource
rlcompleter
runpy               ncoghlan
sched
select
shelve
shlex
shutil              tarek
signal
site
smtpd
smtplib
sndhdr
socket
socketserver
spwd
sqlite3             ghaering
ssl                 janssen, pitrou, giampaolo.rodola
stat
string              georg.brandl*
stringprep
struct              mark.dickinson
subprocess          astrand (inactive)
sunau
symbol
symtable            benjamin.peterson
sys
sysconfig           tarek
syslog              jafo*
tabnanny            tim_one (inactive)
tarfile             lars.gustaebel
telnetlib
tempfile            georg.brandl
termios
test
textwrap            georg.brandl
threading           pitrou
time                belopolsky
timeit              georg.brandl
tkinter             gpolo
token               georg.brandl
tokenize
trace               belopolsky
traceback           georg.brandl*
tty
turtle              gregorlingl
types
unicodedata         loewis, lemburg, ezio.melotti
unittest            michael.foord, ezio.melotti
urllib              orsenthil
uu
uuid
warnings            brett.cannon
wave
weakref             fdrake, pitrou
webbrowser          georg.brandl
winreg              brian.curtin*, stutzbach
winsound            effbot (inactive)
wsgiref             pje
xdrlib
xml.dom
xml.dom.minidom
xml.dom.pulldom
xml.etree           effbot (inactive)
xml.parsers.expat
xml.sax
xml.sax.handler
xml.sax.saxutils
xml.sax.xmlreader
xmlrpc              loewis
zipfile             alanmcintyre
zipimport
zlib
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Tool                Maintainers
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pybench             lemburg
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Platform            Maintainers
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AIX
Cygwin              jlt63, stutzbach
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
Mac                 ronaldoussoren, ned.deily
NetBSD1
OS2/EMX             aimacintyre
Solaris
Windows             tim.golden, brian.curtin
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Interest Area       Maintainers
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algorithms
ast/compiler        ncoghlan, benjamin.peterson, brett.cannon, georg.brandl
autoconf/makefiles
bsd
bug tracker         ezio.melotti
buildbots
bytecode            pitrou
data formats        mark.dickinson, georg.brandl
database            lemburg
documentation       georg.brandl, ezio.melotti
GUI
i18n                lemburg
import machinery    brett.cannon, ncoghlan
io                  pitrou, benjamin.peterson, stutzbach
locale              lemburg, loewis
mathematics         mark.dickinson, eric.smith, lemburg, stutzbach
memory management   tim_one, lemburg
networking          giampaolo.rodola
packaging           tarek, lemburg
py3 transition      benjamin.peterson
release management  tarek, lemburg, benjamin.peterson, barry, loewis,
                    gvanrossum, anthonybaxter
str.format          eric.smith
testing             michael.foord, pitrou, giampaolo.rodola, ezio.melotti
threads             pitrou
time and dates      lemburg, belopolsky
unicode             lemburg, ezio.melotti, haypo
version control
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