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