Guido van Rossum, as well as being the creator of the Python language, is the

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original creator of IDLE. Other contributors prior to Version 0.8 include

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Mark Hammond, Jeremy Hylton, Tim Peters, and Moshe Zadka.

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IDLE's recent development was carried out in the SF IDLEfork project. The

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objective was to develop a version of IDLE which had an execution environment

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which could be initialized prior to each run of user code.

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The IDLEfork project was initiated by David Scherer, with some help from Peter

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Schneider-Kamp and Nicholas Riley. David wrote the first version of the RPC

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code and designed a fast turn-around environment for VPython. Guido developed

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the RPC code and Remote Debugger currently integrated in IDLE. Bruce Sherwood

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contributed considerable time testing and suggesting improvements.

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Besides David and Guido, the main developers who were active on IDLEfork

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are Stephen M. Gava, who implemented the configuration GUI, the new

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configuration system, and the About dialog, and Kurt B. Kaiser, who completed

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the integration of the RPC and remote debugger, implemented the threaded

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subprocess, and made a number of usability enhancements.

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Other contributors include Raymond Hettinger, Tony Lownds (Mac integration),

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Neal Norwitz (code check and clean-up), Ronald Oussoren (Mac integration),

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Noam Raphael (Code Context, Call Tips, many other patches), and Chui Tey (RPC

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integration, debugger integration and persistent breakpoints).

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Scott David Daniels, Tal Einat, Hernan Foffani, Christos Georgiou,

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Jim Jewett, Martin v. Löwis, Jason Orendorff, Guilherme Polo, Josh Robb,

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Nigel Rowe, Bruce Sherwood, Jeff Shute, and Weeble have submitted useful

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patches. Thanks, guys!

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For additional details refer to NEWS.txt and Changelog.

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Please contact the IDLE maintainer (kbk@shore.net) to have yourself included

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here if you are one of those we missed!

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