
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, Manuel Balsera, 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., Jacques Ducasse,
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, Matt Giuca, 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, Ben Hayden, 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, Kamil Kisiel, Greg Kochanski, Guido Kollerie, Peter A.
Koren, Daniel Kozan, Andrew M. Kuchling, Dave Kuhlman, Erno Kuusela,
Ross Lagerwall, Thomas Lamb, Detlef Lannert, Piers Lauder, Glyph
Lefkowitz, Robert Lehmann, Marc-André Lemburg, Ross Light, Gediminas
Liktaras, Ulf A. Lindgren, Everett Lipman, Mirko Liss, Martin von
Löwis, Fredrik Lundh, Jeff MacDonald, John Machin, Andrew MacIntyre,
Vladimir Marangozov, Vincent Marchetti, Westley Martínez, Laura
Matson, Daniel May, Rebecca McCreary, Doug Mennella, Paolo Milani,
Skip Montanaro, Paul Moore, Ross Moore, Sjoerd Mullender, Dale Nagata,
Michal Nowikowski, Steffen Daode Nurpmeso, 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, Terry J. Reedy, 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, SilentGhost, 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, Sandro Tosi, 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, Paul Winkler, Collin Winter, Blake Winton, Dan Wolfe, Steven
Work, Thomas Wouters, Ka-Ping Yee, Rory Yorke, Moshe Zadka, Milan
Zamazal, Cheng Zhang, Trent Nelson, Michael Foord.

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