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Acknowledgements
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This list is not complete and not in any useful order, but I would
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like to thank everybody who contributed in any way, with code, hints,
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bug reports, ideas, moral support, endorsement, or even complaints....
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Without you, I would've stopped working on Python long ago!
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--Guido
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PS: In the standard Python distribution, this file is encoded in Latin-1.
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Ken Stox
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Dan Stromberg
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Daniel Stutzbach
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Nathan Sullivan
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Mark Summerfield
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Hisao Suzuki
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Kalle Svensson
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Paul Swartz
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Thenault Sylvain
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Geoff Talvola
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William Tanksley
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Christian Tanzer
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Steven Taschuk
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Monty Taylor
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Amy Taylor
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Tobias Thelen
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James Thomas
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Robin Thomas
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Eric Tiedemann
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Tracy Tims
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Oren Tirosh
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Jason Tishler
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Christian Tismer
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Frank J. Tobin
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R Lindsay Todd
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Bennett Todd
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Richard Townsend
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Laurence Tratt
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John Tromp
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Jason Trowbridge
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Anthony Tuininga
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Stephen Turner
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Bill Tutt
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Doobee R. Tzeck
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Eren Türkay
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Lionel Ulmer
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Roger Upole
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Michael Urman
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Hector Urtubia
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Atul Varma
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Dmitry Vasiliev
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Alexandre Vassalotti
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Frank Vercruesse
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Mike Verdone
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Jaap Vermeulen
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Al Vezza
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Jacques A. Vidrine
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John Viega
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Kannan Vijayan
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Kurt Vile
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Norman Vine
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Frank Visser
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Niki W. Waibel
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Wojtek Walczak
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Charles Waldman
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Richard Walker
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Larry Wall
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Greg Ward
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Barry Warsaw
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Steve Waterbury
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Bob Watson
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Aaron Watters
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Henrik Weber
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Corran Webster
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Stefan Wehr
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Zack Weinberg
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Edward Welbourne
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Cliff Wells
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Rickard Westman
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Jeff Wheeler
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Christopher White
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Mats Wichmann
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Truida Wiedijk
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Felix Wiemann
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Gerry Wiener
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Bryce "Zooko" Wilcox-O'Hearn
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John Williams
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Sue Williams
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Gerald S. Williams
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Frank Willison
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Greg V. Wilson
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Jody Winston
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Collin Winter
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Dik Winter
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Blake Winton
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Jean-Claude Wippler
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Lars Wirzenius
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Stefan Witzel
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David Wolever
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Klaus-Juergen Wolf
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Dan Wolfe
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Richard Wolff
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Gordon Worley
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Thomas Wouters
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Heiko Wundram
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Doug Wyatt
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Ka-Ping Yee
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Bob Yodlowski
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Danny Yoo
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George Yoshida
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Masazumi Yoshikawa
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Bernard Yue
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Moshe Zadka
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Milan Zamazal
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Artur Zaprzala
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Mike Zarnstorff
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Siebren van der Zee
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Uwe Zessin
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Tarek ZiadŽ
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Peter Åstrand
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