Credits

The main authors of the code are:

Fernando Pérez <fperez@colorado.edu> (currently main contact)

Janko Hauser <jhauser@comunit.de>

Nathan Gray <n8gray@caltech.edu>

And we are very grateful to:

Bill Bumgarner <bbum@friday.com>: for providing the DPyGetOpt module which gives very powerful and convenient handling of command-line options (light years ahead of what Python 2.1.1's getopt module does).

Ka-Ping Yee <ping@lfw.org>: for providing the Itpl module for convenient and powerful string interpolation with a much nicer syntax than formatting through the '%' operator.

Arnd Bäcker <arnd.baecker@physik.uni-ulm.de>: for his many very useful suggestions and comments, and lots of help with testing and documentation checking. Many of IPython's newer features are a result of discussions with him (bugs are still my fault, not his).

Obviously Guido van Rossum and the whole Python development team, that goes without saying.

Fernando would also like to thank Stephen Figgins <fig@monitor.net>, an O'Reilly Python editor. His Oct/11/01 article about IPP and LazyPython, was what got this project started. You can read it at: http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/python/2001/10/11/pythonnews.html.

And last but not least, all the kind IPython users who have emailed bug reports, fixes, comments and ideas. A brief list follows, please let me know if I have ommitted your name by accident:

• [Jack Moffit]<jack@xiph.org> Bug fixes, including the infamous color problem. This bug alone caused many lost hours and frustration, many thanks to him for the fix. I've always been a fan of Ogg & friends, now I have one more reason to like these folks.
  Jack is also contributing with Debian packaging and many other things.
• [Mike Heeter]<korora@SDF.LONESTAR.ORG>
• [Christopher Hart]<hart@caltech.edu> PDB integration.
• [Milan Zamazal]<pdm@zamazal.org> Emacs info.
• [Philip Hisley]<compsys@starpower.net>
• [Holger Krekel]<pyth@devel.trillke.net> Tab completion, lots more.
• [Alexander Schmolck]<a.schmolck@gmx.net> Emacs work, bug reports, bug fixes, ideas, lots more.
• [Robin Siebler]<robinsiebler@starband.net>
• [Ralf Ahlbrink]<ralf_ahlbrink@web.de>
• [Andrea Riciputi]<andrea.riciputi@libero.it> Mac OSX information.
• [Thorsten Kampe]<thorsten@thorstenkampe.de>
• [Fredrik Kant]<fredrik.kant@front.com> Windows setup.
• [Syver Enstad]<syver-en@online.no> Windows setup.
• [Richard]<rxe@renre-europe.com> Global embedding.
• [Hayden Callow]<h.callow@elec.canterbury.ac.nz> Gnuplot.py 1.6 compatibility.
• [Leonardo Santagada]<retype@terra.com.br> Fixes for Windows installation.
• [Christopher Armstrong]<radix@twistedmatrix.com> Bugfixes.
• [François Pinard]<pinard@iro.umontreal.ca> Code and documentation fixes.
• [Cory Dodt]<cdodt@fcoe.k12.ca.us> Bug reports and Windows ideas.
• [Olivier Aubert]<oaubert@bat710.univ-lyon1.fr> New magics.
• [Jeffrey Collins]<Jeff.Collins@vexcel.com> Bug reports.
• [King C. Shu]<kingshu@myrealbox.com> Autoindent patch.
• [Chris Drexler]<chris@ac-drexler.de> Readline packages for Win32/CygWin.
• [Gustavo Córdova Avila]<gcordova@sismex.com> EvalDict code for nice, lightweight string interpolation.
• [Gary Bishop]<gb@cs.unc.edu> Bug reports, and patches to work around the exception handling idiosyncracies of WxPython.
• [Kasper Souren]<Kasper.Souren@ircam.fr> Bug reports, ideas.