1 | Guido van Rossum, as well as being the creator of the Python language, is the
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2 | original creator of IDLE. Other contributors prior to Version 0.8 include
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3 | Mark Hammond, Jeremy Hylton, Tim Peters, and Moshe Zadka.
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5 | IDLE's recent development was carried out in the SF IDLEfork project. The
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6 | objective was to develop a version of IDLE which had an execution environment
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7 | which could be initialized prior to each run of user code.
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9 | The IDLEfork project was initiated by David Scherer, with some help from Peter
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10 | Schneider-Kamp and Nicholas Riley. David wrote the first version of the RPC
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11 | code and designed a fast turn-around environment for VPython. Guido developed
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12 | the RPC code and Remote Debugger currently integrated in IDLE. Bruce Sherwood
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13 | contributed considerable time testing and suggesting improvements.
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15 | Besides David and Guido, the main developers who were active on IDLEfork
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16 | are Stephen M. Gava, who implemented the configuration GUI, the new
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17 | configuration system, and the About dialog, and Kurt B. Kaiser, who completed
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18 | the integration of the RPC and remote debugger, implemented the threaded
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19 | subprocess, and made a number of usability enhancements.
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21 | Other contributors include Raymond Hettinger, Tony Lownds (Mac integration),
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22 | Neal Norwitz (code check and clean-up), Ronald Oussoren (Mac integration),
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23 | Noam Raphael (Code Context, Call Tips, many other patches), and Chui Tey (RPC
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24 | integration, debugger integration and persistent breakpoints).
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26 | Scott David Daniels, Tal Einat, Hernan Foffani, Christos Georgiou,
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27 | Jim Jewett, Martin v. Löwis, Jason Orendorff, Guilherme Polo, Josh Robb,
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28 | Nigel Rowe, Bruce Sherwood, Jeff Shute, and Weeble have submitted useful
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29 | patches. Thanks, guys!
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31 | For additional details refer to NEWS.txt and Changelog.
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33 | Please contact the IDLE maintainer (kbk@shore.net) to have yourself included
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34 | here if you are one of those we missed!
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