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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.
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Greg Kochanski
• Guido Kollerie
• Peter A. Koren
• Daniel Kozan
• Andrew M. Kuchling
• Dave Kuhlman
• Erno Kuusela
• Thomas Lamb
• Detlef Lannert
• Piers Lauder
• Glyph Lefkowitz
• Robert Lehmann
• Marc-André Lemburg
• Ross Light
• Ulf A. Lindgren
• Everett Lipman
• Mirko Liss
• Martin von Löwis
• Fredrik Lundh
• Jeff MacDonald
• John Machin
• Andrew MacIntyre
• Vladimir Marangozov
• Vincent Marchetti
• Laura Matson
• Daniel May
• Rebecca McCreary
• Doug Mennella
• Paolo Milani
• Skip Montanaro
• Paul Moore
• Ross Moore
• Sjoerd Mullender
• Dale Nagata
• 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
• 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
• 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

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