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.

Rajiv Abraham
David Abrahams
Ron Adam
Ali Afshar
Jim Ahlstrom
Farhan Ahmad
Matthew Ahrens
Nir Aides
Yaniv Aknin
Jyrki Alakuijala
Ray Allen
Billy G. Allie
Kevin Altis
Joe Amenta
Mark Anacker
Shashwat Anand
Anders Andersen
John Anderson
Erik Andersén
Oliver Andrich
Ross Andrus
Jérémy Anger
Jon Anglin
Éric Araujo
Alicia Arlen
Jason Asbahr
David Ascher
Chris AtLee
Aymeric Augustin
John Aycock
Donovan Baarda
Attila Babo
Marcin Bachry
Alfonso Baciero
Dwayne Bailey
Stig Bakken
Greg Ball
Luigi Ballabio
Jeff Balogh
Matt Bandy
Michael J. Barber
Nicolas Bareil
Chris Barker
Nick Barnes
Quentin Barnes
David Barnett
Richard Barran
Cesar Eduardo Barros
Des Barry
Ulf Bartelt
Pior Bastida
Nick Bastin
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
Andrew Bennetts
Andy Bensky
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
Renaud Blanch
Mike Bland
Martin Bless
Pablo Bleyer
Erik van Blokland
Eric Blossom
Finn Bock
Paul Boddie
Matthew Boedicker
David Bolen
Gawain Bolton
Forest Bond
Gregory Bond
Matias Bordese
Jurjen Bos
Peter Bosch
Eric Bouck
Thierry Bousch
Sebastian Boving
Jeff Bradberry
Monty Brandenberg
Georg Brandl
Christopher Brannon
Terrence Brannon
Erik Bray
Brian Brazil
Dave Brennan
Tom Bridgman
Anthony Briggs
Tobias Brink
Richard Brodie
Michael Broghton
Daniel Brotsky
Jean Brouwers
Gary S. Brown
Titus Brown
Oleg Broytmann
Dave Brueck
Francisco Martín Brugué
Floris Bruynooghe
Stan Bubrouski
Erik de Bueger
Jan-Hein Bührman
Dick Bulterman
Bill Bumgarner
Jimmy Burgett
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
Per Cederqvist
Octavian Cerna
Pascal Chambon
John Chandler
Hye-Shik Chang
Jeffrey Chang
Godefroid Chapelle
Brad Chapman
Greg Chapman
Mitch Chapman
David Chaum
Nicolas Chauvat
Jerry Chen
Michael Chermside
Albert Chin-A-Young
Adal Chiriliuc
Matt Chisholm
Anders Chrigström
Tom Christiansen
Vadim Chugunov
David Cinege
Craig Citro
Chris Clark
Mike Clarkson
Andrew Clegg
Brad Clements
Robbie Clemons
Steve Clift
Nick Coghlan
Josh Cogliati
Dave Cole
Terrence Cole
Benjamin Collar
Jeffery Collins
Robert Collins
Paul Colomiets
Christophe Combelles
Geremy Condra
Denver Coneybeare
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
Laura Creighton
Simon Cross
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
Jonathan Dasteel
Pierre-Yves David
Xavier de Gaye
John DeGood
Ned Deily
Vincent Delft
Arnaud Delobelle
Konrad Delong
Erik Demaine
John Dennis
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
Marcos Donolo
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
Maxim Dzumanenko
Walter Dörwald
Hans Eckardt
Rodolpho Eckhardt
John Edmonds
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
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
Niels Ferguson
Sebastian Fernandez
Florian Festi
John Feuerstein
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
Andrew Francis
Martin Franklin
Robin Friedrich
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
Quentin Gallet-Gilles
Riccardo Attilio Galli
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
Yannick Gingras
Michael Goderbauer
Christoph Gohlke
Tim Golden
Tiago Gonçalves
Chris Gonnerman
David Goodger
Hans de Graaff
Eddy De Greef
Duncan Grisby
Fabian Groffen
Eric Groo
Dag Gruneau
Filip Gruszczyński
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
Mark Hammond
Manus Hand
Milton L. Hankins
Stephen Hansen
Barry Hantman
Lynda Hardman
Derek Harland
Jason Harper
Brian Harring
Jonathan Hartley
Larry Hastings
Shane Hathaway
Rycharde Hawkes
Ben Hayden
Jochen Hayek
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
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
Albert Hofkamp
Tomas Hoger
Jonathan Hogg
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
Jan Hosang
Ken Howard
Brad Howes
Mike Hoy
Chih-Hao Huang
Christian Hudon
Lawrence Hudson
Michael Hudson
Jim Hugunin
Greg Humphreys
Eric Huss
Jeremy Hylton
Gerhard Häring
Fredrik Håård
Catalin Iacob
Mihai Ibanescu
Lars Immisch
Bobby Impollonia
Meador Inge
Tony Ingraldi
John Interrante
Bob Ippolito
Atsuo Ishimoto
Adam Jackson
Ben Jackson
Paul Jackson
David Jacobs
Kevin Jacobs
Kjetil Jacobsen
Bertrand Janin
Geert Jansen
Jack Jansen
Bill Janssen
Thomas Jarosch
Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
Julien Jehannet
Drew Jenkins
Flemming Kjær Jensen
MunSic Jeong
Orjan Johansen
Fredrik Johansson
Gregory K. Johnson
Simon Johnston
Matt Joiner
Thomas Jollans
Nicolas Joly
Evan Jones
Jeremy Jones
Richard Jones
Irmen de Jong
Lucas de Jonge
Jens B. Jorgensen
John Jorgensen
Sijin Joseph
Andreas Jung
Tattoo Mabonzo K.
Bob Kahn
Kurt B. Kaiser
Tamito Kajiyama
Jan Kaliszewski
Peter van Kampen
Rafe Kaplan
Jacob Kaplan-Moss
Per Øyvind Karlsen
Lou Kates
Hiroaki Kawai
Sebastien Keim
Ryan Kelly
Dan Kenigsberg
Randall Kern
Robert Kern
Magnus Kessler
Lawrence Kesteloot
Vivek Khera
Mads Kiilerich
Taek Joo Kim
W. Trevor King
Paul Kippes
Steve Kirsch
Sebastian Kirsche
Akira Kitada
Ron Klatchko
Reid Kleckner
Bastian Kleineidam
Bob Kline
Matthias Klose
Jeremy Kloth
Thomas Kluyver
Kim Knapp
Lenny Kneler
Pat Knight
Greg Kochanski
Damon Kohler
Marko Kohtala
Jacek Konieczny
Марк Коренберг
Arkady Koplyarov
Vlad Korolev
Joseph Koshy
Maksim Kozyarchuk
Stefan Krah
Bob Kras
Holger Krekel
Michael Kremer
Fabian Kreutz
Cédric Krier
Hannu Krosing
Andrej Krpic
Ivan Krstić
Andrew Kuchling
Jon Kuhn
Vladimir Kushnir
Ross Lagerwall
Cameron Laird
Jean-Baptiste "Jiba" Lamy
Torsten Landschoff
Łukasz Langa
Tino Lange
Andrew Langmead
Detlef Lannert
Soren Larsen
Amos Latteier
Piers Lauder
Ben Laurie
Simon Law
Chris Lawrence
Brian Leair
Mathieu Leduc-Hamel
Christopher Lee
Inyeol Lee
James Lee
John J. Lee
Thomas Lee
Tennessee Leeuwenburg
Luc Lefebvre
Vincent Legoll
Kip Lehman
Joerg Lehmann
Robert Lehmann
Petri Lehtinen
Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
Marc-Andre Lemburg
John Lenton
Christopher Tur Lesniewski-Laas
Alain Leufroy
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
Hugo Lopes Tavares
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
Guillermo López-Anglada
Andrew I MacIntyre
Tim MacKenzie
Nick Maclaren
Don MacMillen
Steve Majewski
Grzegorz Makarewicz
David Malcolm
Ken Manheimer
Vladimir Marangozov
David Marek
Doug Marien
Sven Marnach
Alex Martelli
Anthony Martin
Owen Martin
Sébastien Martini
Roger Masse
Nick Mathewson
Simon Mathieu
Graham Matthews
Dieter Maurer
Arnaud Mazin
Kirk McDonald
Chris McDonough
Greg McFarlane
Alan McIntyre
Michael McLay
Mark Mc Mahon
Gordon McMillan
Andrew McNamara
Caolan McNamara
Craig McPheeters
Lambert Meertens
Bill van Melle
Lucas Prado Melo
Ezio Melotti
Brian Merrell
Luke Mewburn
Carl Meyer
Mike Meyer
Piotr Meyer
Alexis Métaireau
Steven Miale
Trent Mick
Stan Mihai
Aristotelis Mikropoulos
Chad Miller
Damien Miller
Jason V. Miller
Jay T. Miller
Roman Milner
Julien Miotte
Andrii V. Mishkovskyi
Dom Mitchell
Dustin J. Mitchell
Zubin Mithra
Doug Moen
The Dragon De Monsyne
Skip Montanaro
Paul Moore
Derek Morr
James A Morrison
Derek McTavish Mounce
Pablo Mouzo
Mher Movsisyan
Ruslan Mstoi
Michael Mulich
Sape Mullender
Sjoerd Mullender
Michael Muller
Neil Muller
Louis Munro
R. David Murray
John Nagle
Takahiro Nakayama
Travers Naran
Charles-François Natali
Vilmos Nebehaj
Fredrik Nehr
Tony Nelson
Trent Nelson
Chad Netzer
Max Neunhöffer
George Neville-Neil
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
Pascal Oberndoerfer
Jeffrey Ollie
Adam Olsen
Grant Olson
Piet van Oostrum
Jason Orendorff
Douglas Orr
Michele Orrù
Oleg Oshmyan
Denis S. Otkidach
Peter Otten
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
Gaël Pasgrimaud
Randy Pausch
Samuele Pedroni
Marcel van der Peijl
Berker Peksag
Steven Pemberton
Santiago Peresón
George Peristerakis
Mathieu Perreault
Mark Perrego
Trevor Perrin
Gabriel de Perthuis
Tim Peters
Benjamin Peterson
Joe Peterson
Chris Petrilli
Bjorn Pettersen
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
Zach Pincus
Michael Piotrowski
Antoine Pitrou
Jean-François Piéronne
Oleg Plakhotnyuk
Remi Pointel
Guilherme Polo
Michael Pomraning
Iustin Pop
Claudiu Popa
John Popplewell
Amrit Prem
Paul Prescod
Donovan Preston
Paul Price
Jyrki Pulliainen
Steve Purcell
Eduardo Pérez
Fernando Pérez
Pierre Quentel
Brian Quinlan
Anders Qvist
Jérôme Radix
Burton Radons
Jeff Ramnani
Brodie Rao
Antti Rasinen
Sridhar Ratnakumar
Ysj Ray
Eric Raymond
Edward K. Ream
Chris Rebert
Marc Recht
John Redford
Terry Reedy
Gareth Rees
Steve Reeves
Lennart Regebro
Ofir Reichenberg
Sean Reifschneider
Michael P. Reilly
Bernhard Reiter
Steven Reiz
Roeland Rengelink
Antoine Reversat
Francesco Ricciardi
Tim Rice
Jan Pieter Riegel
Armin Rigo
Arc Riley
Nicholas Riley
Jean-Claude Rimbault
Vlad Riscutia
Juan M. Bello Rivas
Davide Rizzo
Anthony Roach
Carl Robben
Mark Roberts
Andy Robinson
Jim Robinson
Mark Roddy
Kevin Rodgers
Giampaolo Rodola
Elson Rodriguez
Luis Rojas
Mike Romberg
Armin Ronacher
Case Roole
Timothy Roscoe
Erik Rose
Jim Roskind
Brian Rosner
Just van Rossum
Hugo van Rossum
Saskia van Rossum
Donald Wallace Rouse II
Liam Routt
Craig Rowland
Clinton Roy
Paul Rubin
Sam Ruby
Demur Rumed
Audun S. Runde
Rauli Ruohonen
Jeff Rush
Sam Rushing
Mark Russell
Rusty Russell
Nick Russo
Patrick Sabin
Sébastien Sablé
Suman Saha
Hajime Saitou
George Sakkis
Rich Salz
Kevin Samborn
Adrian Sampson
Ilya Sandler
Mark Sapiro
Ty Sarna
Ben Sayer
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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
Chad J. Schroeder
Sam Schulenburg
Stefan Schwarzer
Dietmar Schwertberger
Federico Schwindt
Barry Scott
Steven Scott
Nick Seidenman
Žiga Seilnach
Yury Selivanov
Fred Sells
Jiwon Seo
Iñigo Serna
Roger D. Serwy
Jerry Seutter
Denis Severson
Ian Seyer
Ha Shao
Richard Shapiro
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
Adam Simpkins
Janne Sinkkonen
George Sipe
J. Sipprell
Kragen Sitaker
Christopher Smith
Eric V. Smith
Gregory P. Smith
Mark Smith
Rafal Smotrzyk
Eric Snow
Dirk Soede
Paul Sokolovsky
Cody Somerville
Edoardo Spadolini
Clay Spence
Stefan Sperling
Per Spilling
Joshua Spoerri
Noah Spurrier
Nathan Srebro
RajGopal Srinivasan
Quentin Stafford-Fraser
Frank Stajano
Joel Stanley
Oliver Steele
Greg Stein
Chris Stern
Alex Stewart
Victor Stinner
Richard Stoakley
Peter Stoehr
Casper Stoel
Michael Stone
Ken Stox
Dan Stromberg
Daniel Stutzbach
Andreas Stührk
Pal Subbiah
Nathan Sullivan
Mark Summerfield
Hisao Suzuki
Kalle Svensson
Andrew Svetlov
Paul Swartz
Thenault Sylvain
Péter Szabó
Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis
Neil Tallim
Geoff Talvola
Musashi Tamura
William Tanksley
Christian Tanzer
Steven Taschuk
Amy Taylor
Monty Taylor
Anatoly Techtonik
Mikhail Terekhov
Richard M. Tew
Tobias Thelen
Nicolas M. Thiéry
James Thomas
Robin Thomas
Stephen Thorne
Jeremy Thurgood
Eric Tiedemann
July Tikhonov
Tracy Tims
Oren Tirosh
Jason Tishler
Christian Tismer
Frank J. Tobin
Bennett Todd
R Lindsay Todd
Eugene Toder
Erik Tollerud
Matias Torchinsky
Sandro Tosi
Richard Townsend
David Townshend
Laurence Tratt
Matthias Troffaes
John Tromp
Jason Trowbridge
Anthony Tuininga
Erno Tukia
Stephen Turner
Theodore Turocy
Bill Tutt
Doobee R. Tzeck
Eren Türkay
Lionel Ulmer
Roger Upole
Daniel Urban
Michael Urman
Hector Urtubia
Andi Vajda
Case Van Horsen
Kyle VanderBeek
Andrew Vant
Atul Varma
Dmitry Vasiliev
Alexandre Vassalotti
Nadeem Vawda
Frank Vercruesse
Mike Verdone
Jaap Vermeulen
Nikita Vetoshkin
Al Vezza
Jacques A. Vidrine
John Viega
Kannan Vijayan
Kurt Vile
Norman Vine
Pauli Virtanen
Frank Visser
Johannes Vogel
Sjoerd de Vries
Niki W. Waibel
Wojtek Walczak
Charles Waldman
Richard Walker
Larry Wall
Kevin Walzer
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
Gerald S. Williams
Jason Williams
John Williams
Sue Williams
Frank Willison
Greg V. Wilson
Jody Winston
Collin Winter
Dik Winter
Blake Winton
Jean-Claude Wippler
Lars Wirzenius
John Wiseman
Chris Withers
Stefan Witzel
Irek Wlizlo
David Wolever
Klaus-Juergen Wolf
Dan Wolfe
Richard Wolff
Adam Woodbeck
Gordon Worley
Darren Worrall
Thomas Wouters
Heiko Wundram
Doug Wyatt
Robert Xiao
Florent Xicluna
Hirokazu Yamamoto
Ka-Ping Yee
Bob Yodlowski
Danny Yoo
George Yoshida
Masazumi Yoshikawa
Arnaud Ysmal
Bernard Yue
Moshe Zadka
Milan Zamazal
Artur Zaprzala
Mike Zarnstorff
Siebren van der Zee
Yuxiao Zeng
Uwe Zessin
Kai Zhu
Tarek Ziadé
Peter Åstrand