Maintainers Index
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.. warning::
This document is out of date and replaced by another version in the
developer's guide at http://docs.python.org/devguide/experts
This document has tables that list Python Modules, Tools, Platforms and
Interest Areas and names for each item that indicate a maintainer or an
expert in the field. This list is intended to be used by issue submitters,
issue triage people, and other issue participants to find people to add to
the nosy list or to contact directly by email for help and decisions on
feature requests and bug fixes. People on this list may be asked to render
final judgement on a feature or bug. If no active maintainer is listed for
a given module, then questionable changes should go to python-dev, while
any other issues can and should be decided by any committer.
Unless a name is followed by a '*', you should never assign an issue to
that person, only make them nosy. Names followed by a '*' may be assigned
issues involving the module or topic.
The Platform and Interest Area tables list broader fields in which various
people have expertise. These people can also be contacted for help,
opinions, and decisions when issues involve their areas.
If a listed maintainer does not respond to requests for comment for an
extended period (three weeks or more), they should be marked as inactive
in this list by placing the word 'inactive' in parenthesis behind their
tracker id. They are of course free to remove that inactive mark at
any time.
Committers should update these tables as their areas of expertise widen.
New topics may be added to the Interest Area table at will.
The existence of this list is not meant to indicate that these people
*must* be contacted for decisions; it is, rather, a resource to be used
by non-committers to find responsible parties, and by committers who do
not feel qualified to make a decision in a particular context.
See also `PEP 291`_ and `PEP 360`_ for information about certain modules
with special rules.
.. _`PEP 291`: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0291/
.. _`PEP 360`: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0360/
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Module Maintainers
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__builtin__
__future__
__main__ gvanrossum
_dummy_thread brett.cannon
_thread pitrou
_winreg brian.curtin*, stutzbach
abc
aifc r.david.murray
argparse bethard
array
ast
asynchat josiahcarlson, giampaolo.rodola, stutzbach
asyncore josiahcarlson, giampaolo.rodola, stutzbach
atexit
audioop
base64
BaseHTTPServer
bdb
binascii
binhex
bisect rhettinger
bz2
calendar rhettinger
cgi
CGIHTTPServer
cgitb
chunk
cmath mark.dickinson
cmd
code
codecs lemburg, doerwalter
codeop
collections rhettinger
collections._abcoll rhettinger, stutzbach
colorsys
compileall
ConfigParser lukasz.langa
contextlib ncoghlan
copy alexandre.vassalotti
copy_reg alexandre.vassalotti
cProfile
crypt jafo*
csv skip.montanaro
ctypes theller
curses
datetime belopolsky
dbm
decimal facundobatista, rhettinger, mark.dickinson
difflib tim_one (inactive)
dis
distutils tarek*, eric.araujo*
doctest tim_one (inactive)
dummy_threading brett.cannon
email barry, r.david.murray*
encodings lemburg, loewis
errno
exceptions
fcntl
filecmp
fileinput
fnmatch
formatter
fpectl
fractions mark.dickinson, rhettinger
ftplib giampaolo.rodola
functools ncoghlan, rhettinger
gc pitrou
getopt
getpass
gettext loewis
glob
grp
gzip
hashlib
heapq rhettinger, stutzbach
hmac
htmlentitydefs
htmllib
HTMLParser
httplib
idlelib kbk
imaplib
imghdr
imp
importlib brett.cannon
inspect
io pitrou, benjamin.peterson, stutzbach
itertools rhettinger
json bob.ippolito (inactive), rhettinger
keyword
lib2to3 benjamin.peterson
linecache
locale loewis, lemburg
logging vinay.sajip
macpath
mailbox
mailcap
marshal
math mark.dickinson, rhettinger, stutzbach
mimetypes
mmap
modulefinder theller, jvr
msilib loewis
msvcrt
multiprocessing jnoller
netrc
nis
nntplib pitrou
numbers
operator
optparse aronacher
os loewis
ossaudiodev
parser
pdb georg.brandl*
pickle alexandre.vassalotti, pitrou
pickletools alexandre.vassalotti
pipes
pkgutil
platform lemburg
plistlib
poplib
posix
pprint fdrake
profile georg.brandl
pstats georg.brandl
pty
pwd
py_compile
pybench lemburg, pitrou
pyclbr
pydoc
Queue rhettinger
quopri
random rhettinger
re effbot (inactive), pitrou, ezio.melotti
readline
reprlib
resource
rlcompleter
runpy ncoghlan
sched
select
shelve
shlex
shutil tarek
signal
SimpleHTTPServer
site
smtpd
smtplib
sndhdr
socket
SocketServer
spwd
sqlite3 ghaering
ssl janssen, pitrou, giampaolo.rodola
stat
string georg.brandl*
stringprep
struct mark.dickinson
subprocess astrand (inactive)
sunau
symbol
symtable benjamin.peterson
sys
sysconfig tarek
syslog jafo*
tabnanny tim_one (inactive)
tarfile lars.gustaebel
telnetlib
tempfile georg.brandl
termios
test
textwrap georg.brandl
threading pitrou
time belopolsky
timeit georg.brandl
Tkinter gpolo
token georg.brandl
tokenize
trace belopolsky
traceback georg.brandl*
tty
turtle gregorlingl
types
unicodedata loewis, lemburg, ezio.melotti
unittest michael.foord, ezio.melotti
urllib orsenthil
uu
uuid
warnings brett.cannon
wave
weakref fdrake, pitrou
webbrowser georg.brandl
winsound effbot (inactive)
wsgiref pje
xdrlib
xml.dom
xml.dom.minidom
xml.dom.pulldom
xml.etree effbot (inactive)
xml.parsers.expat
xml.sax
xml.sax.handler
xml.sax.saxutils
xml.sax.xmlreader
xmlrpc loewis
zipfile alanmcintyre
zipimport
zlib
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Tool Maintainers
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pybench lemburg
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Platform Maintainers
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AIX
Cygwin jlt63, stutzbach
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
Mac ronaldoussoren, ned.deily
NetBSD1
OS2/EMX aimacintyre
Solaris
Windows tim.golden, brian.curtin
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Interest Area Maintainers
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algorithms
ast/compiler ncoghlan, benjamin.peterson, brett.cannon, georg.brandl
autoconf/makefiles
bsd
bug tracker ezio.melotti
buildbots
bytecode pitrou
data formats mark.dickinson, georg.brandl
database lemburg
documentation georg.brandl, ezio.melotti
GUI
i18n lemburg
import machinery brett.cannon, ncoghlan
io pitrou, benjamin.peterson, stutzbach
locale lemburg, loewis
mathematics mark.dickinson, eric.smith, lemburg, stutzbach
memory management tim_one, lemburg
networking giampaolo.rodola
packaging tarek, lemburg
py3 transition benjamin.peterson
release management tarek, lemburg, benjamin.peterson, barry, loewis,
gvanrossum, anthonybaxter
str.format eric.smith
testing michael.foord, pitrou, giampaolo.rodola, ezio.melotti
threads pitrou
time and dates lemburg, belopolsky
unicode lemburg, ezio.melotti, haypo
version control
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