1Guido van Rossum, as well as being the creator of the Python language, is the
2original creator of IDLE.  Other contributors prior to Version 0.8 include
3Mark Hammond, Jeremy Hylton, Tim Peters, and Moshe Zadka.
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5Until Python 2.3, IDLE's development was carried out in the SF IDLEfork project. The
6objective was to develop a version of IDLE which had an execution environment
7which could be initialized prior to each run of user code.
8IDLefork was merged into the Python code base in 2003.
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10The IDLEfork project was initiated by David Scherer, with some help from Peter
11Schneider-Kamp and Nicholas Riley.  David wrote the first version of the RPC
12code and designed a fast turn-around environment for VPython.  Guido developed
13the RPC code and Remote Debugger currently integrated in IDLE.  Bruce Sherwood
14contributed considerable time testing and suggesting improvements.
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16Besides David and Guido, the main developers who were active on IDLEfork
17are Stephen M. Gava, who implemented the configuration GUI, the new
18configuration system, and the About dialog, and Kurt B. Kaiser, who completed
19the integration of the RPC and remote debugger, implemented the threaded
20subprocess, and made a number of usability enhancements.
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22Other contributors include Raymond Hettinger, Tony Lownds (Mac integration),
23Neal Norwitz (code check and clean-up), Ronald Oussoren (Mac integration),
24Noam Raphael (Code Context, Call Tips, many other patches), and Chui Tey (RPC
25integration, debugger integration and persistent breakpoints).
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27Scott David Daniels, Tal Einat, Hernan Foffani, Christos Georgiou,
28Jim Jewett, Martin v. Löwis, Jason Orendorff, Guilherme Polo, Josh Robb,
29Nigel Rowe, Bruce Sherwood, Jeff Shute, and Weeble have submitted useful
30patches.  Thanks, guys!
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32Major contributors since 2005:
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34- 2005: Tal Einat
35- 2010: Terry Jan Reedy (current maintainer)
36- 2013: Roger Serwys
37- 2014: Saimadhav Heblikar
38- 2015: Mark Roseman
39- 2017: Louie Lu, Cheryl Sabella, and Serhiy Storchaka
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41For additional details refer to NEWS.txt and Changelog.
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43Please contact the IDLE maintainer ([email protected]) to have yourself included
44here if you are one of those we missed!
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