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# About these documents

These documents are generated from reStructuredText sources by Sphinx, a document processor specifically written for the Python documentation.

Development of the documentation and its toolchain takes place on the docs@python.org mailing list. We’re always looking for volunteers wanting to help with the docs, so feel free to send a mail there!

Many thanks go to:

- Fred L. Drake, Jr., the creator of the original Python documentation toolset and writer of much of the content;
- the Docutils project for creating reStructuredText and the Docutils suite;
- Fredrik Lundh for his Alternative Python Reference project from which Sphinx got many good ideas.

See Reporting Bugs for information how to report bugs in this documentation, or Python itself.

## Contributors to the Python Documentation

This section lists people who have contributed in some way to the Python documentation. It is probably not complete – if you feel that you or anyone else should be on this list, please let us know (send email to docs@python.org), and we’ll be glad to correct the problem.

- Aahz
- Michael Abbott
- Steve Alexander
- Jim Ahlstrom
- Fred Allen
- A. Amoroso
- Pehr Anderson
- Oliver Andrich
- Heidi Annexstad
- Jesús Cea Avión
- Daniel Barclay
- Chris Barker
- Don Bashford
- Anthony Baxter
- Alexander Belopolsky
- Bennett Benson
- Jonathan Black
- Robin Boerdijk
- Michal Bozon
- Aaron Brancotti
- Georg Brandl
- Keith Briggs
- Ian Bruntlett
- Lee Busby
- Lorenzo M. Catucci
- Carl Cerecke
- Mauro Cicognini
- Gilles Civario
- Mike Clarkson
- Steve Clift
- Dave Cole
- Matthew Cowles
- Jeremy Craven
- Andrew Dalke
- Ben Darnell
- L. Peter Deutsch
- Robert Donohue
- Fred L. Drake, Jr.
- Josip Dzolonga
- Jeff Epler
- Michael Ernst
- Blame Andy Eskilsson
- Carey Evans
- Martijn Faassen
- Carl Feynman
- Dan Finnie
- Hernán Martínez Foffani
- Stefan Franke
- Jim Fulton
- Peter Funk
- Lele Gaifax
- Matthew Gallagher
- Gabriel Genellina
- Ben Gertzfield
- Nadim Ghaznavi
- Jonathan Giddy
- Shelley Gooch
- Nathaniel Gray
- Grant Griffin
- Thomas Guettler
- Anders Hammarquist
- Mark Hammond
- Harald Hanche-Olsen
- Manus Hand
- Gerhard Häring
- Travis B. Hartwell
- Tim Hatch
- Janko Hauser
- Thomas Heller
- Bernhard Herzog
- Magnus L. Hetland
- Konrad Hinsen
- Stefan Hoffmeister
- Albert Hofkamp
- Gregor Hoffleit
- Steve Holden
- Thomas Holenstein
- Gerrit Holl
- Rob Hooft
- Brian Hooper
- Randall Hopper
- Michael Hudson
- Eric Huss
- Jeremy Hylton
- Roger Irwin
- Jack Jansen
- Philip H. Jensen
- Pedro Diaz Jimenez
- Kent Johnson
- Lucas de Jonge
- Andreas Jung
- Robert Kern
- Jim Kerr
- Jan Kim
- Greg Kochanski
- Guido Kollerie
- Peter A. Koren
- Daniel Kozan
- Andrew M. Kuchling
- Dave Kuhlman
- Erno Kuusela
- Thomas Lamb
- Detlef Lannert
- Piers Lauder
- Glyph Lefkowitz
- Robert Lehmann
- Marc-André Lemburg
- Ross Light
- Ulf A. Lindgren
- Everett Lipman
- Mirko Liss
- Martin von Löwis
- Fredrik Lundh
- Jeff MacDonald
- John Machin
- Andrew MacIntyre
- Vladimir Marangozov
- Vincent Marchetti
- Laura Matson
- Daniel May
- Rebecca McCreary
- Doug Mennella
- Paolo Milani
- Skip Montanaro
- Paul Moore
- Ross Moore
- Sjoerd Mullender
- Dale Nagata
- Ng Pheng Siong
- Koray Oner
- Tomas Oppelstrup
- Denis S. Otkidach
- Zooko O’Whielacronx
- Shriphani Palakodety
- William Park
- Joonas Paalasmaa
- Harri Pasanen
- Bo Peng
- Tim Peters
- Benjamin Peterson
- Christopher Petrilli
- Justin D. Pettit
- Chris Phoenix
- François Pinard
- Paul Prescod
- Eric S. Raymond
- Edward K. Ream
- Sean Reifschneider
- Bernhard Reiter
- Armin Rigo
- Wes Rishel
- Armin Ronacher
- Jim Roskind
- Guido van Rossum
- Donald Wallace Rouse II
- Mark Russell
- Nick Russo
- Chris Ryland
- Constantina S.
- Hugh Sasse
- Bob Savage
- Scott Schram
- Neil Schemenauer
- Barry Scott
- Joakim Sernbrant
- Justin Sheehy
- Charlie Shepherd
- Michael Simcich
- Ionel Simionescu
- Michael Sloan
- Gregory P. Smith
- Roy Smith
- Clay Spence
- Nicholas Spies
- Tage Stabell-Kulo
- Frank Stajano
- Anthony Starks
- Greg Stein
- Peter Stoehr
- Mark Summerfield
- Reuben Sumner
- Kalle Svensson
- Jim Tittsler
- David Turner
- Ville Vainio
- Martijn Vries
- Charles G. Waldman
- Greg Ward
- Barry Warsaw
- Corran Webster
- Glyn Webster
- Bob Weiner
- Eddy Welbourne
- Jeff Wheeler
- Mats Wichmann
- Gerry Wiener
- Timothy Wild
- Collin Winter
- Blake Winton
- Dan Wolfe
- Steven Work
- Thomas Wouters
- Ka-Ping Yee
- Rory Yorke
- Moshe Zadka
- Milan Zamazal
- Cheng Zhang

It is only with the input and contributions of the Python community that Python has such wonderful documentation – Thank You!

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