| Guido van Rossum, as well as being the creator of the Python language, is the |
| original creator of IDLE. Other contributors prior to Version 0.8 include |
| Mark Hammond, Jeremy Hylton, Tim Peters, and Moshe Zadka. |
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| IDLE's recent development has been carried out in the IDLEfork project. |
| The objective was to develop a version of IDLE which had an execution |
| environment which could be initialized prior to each run of user code. |
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| The IDLEfork project was initiated by David Scherer, with some help from Peter |
| Schneider-Kamp and Nicholas Riley. David wrote the first version of the RPC |
| code and designed a fast turn-around environment for VPython. Guido developed |
| the RPC code and Remote Debugger currently integrated in IDLE. Bruce Sherwood |
| contributed considerable time testing and suggesting improvements. |
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| Besides David and Guido, the main developers who have been active on IDLEfork |
| are Stephen M. Gava, who implemented the configuration GUI, the new |
| configuration system, and the About dialog, and Kurt B. Kaiser, who completed |
| the integration of the RPC and remote debugger, implemented the threaded |
| subprocess, and made a number of usability enhancements. |
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| Other contributors include Raymond Hettinger, Tony Lownds (Mac integration), |
| Neal Norwitz (code check and clean-up), and Chui Tey (RPC integration, debugger |
| integration and persistent breakpoints). |
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| Hernan Foffani, Christos Georgiou, Martin v. Loewis, Jason Orendorff, Noam |
| Raphael, Josh Robb, Nigel Rowe, and Bruce Sherwood have submitted useful |
| patches. Thanks, guys! |
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| For additional details refer to NEWS.txt and Changelog. |
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| Please contact the IDLE maintainer to have yourself included here if you |
| are one of those we missed! |
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