Re: Sad news: Fredrik Lundh ("Effbot") has passed away
On Sunday, December 12, 2021 at 2:01:19 PM UTC, Skip Montanaro wrote: > Like many others, I'm saddened to hear of Fredrik Lundh's passing. I > vaguely recall meeting him just once, probably at a Python workshop, > before they grew big enough to be called conferences. Effbot.org was > my Tkinter, ElemenTree, and PIL reference and cheat sheet. > > My attention to Python development has waxed and waned over the years. > Most of the time, the trip through the Python folder in my mail > program was generally pretty quick, hitting the 'd' key far more often > than I'd stop to read a message. There are only a few people whose > messages I'd always read. Effbot was one. In my opinion, Fredrik ranks > up there with Guido, Tim Peters and Barry Warsaw. > > I went to effbot.org and saw the "on hiatus" message. Searching > through The Wayback Machine, it seems it went on hiatus in late > November, 2020. The 11 November 2020 snapshot appears to be the last > usable version: > > https://web.archive.org/web/2020145627/http://effbot.org/ > > Probably worth a bookmark in your browser. > > Rest easy /F ... > > Skip I hadn't realised effbot.org was 'on hiatus'. Yes, definitely worth bookmarking The Wayback Machine backup - or even (someone?) making a separate archive? -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Sad news: Fredrik Lundh ("Effbot") has passed away
Like many others, I'm saddened to hear of Fredrik Lundh's passing. I vaguely recall meeting him just once, probably at a Python workshop, before they grew big enough to be called conferences. Effbot.org was my Tkinter, ElemenTree, and PIL reference and cheat sheet. My attention to Python development has waxed and waned over the years. Most of the time, the trip through the Python folder in my mail program was generally pretty quick, hitting the 'd' key far more often than I'd stop to read a message. There are only a few people whose messages I'd always read. Effbot was one. In my opinion, Fredrik ranks up there with Guido, Tim Peters and Barry Warsaw. I went to effbot.org and saw the "on hiatus" message. Searching through The Wayback Machine, it seems it went on hiatus in late November, 2020. The 11 November 2020 snapshot appears to be the last usable version: https://web.archive.org/web/2020145627/http://effbot.org/ Probably worth a bookmark in your browser. Rest easy /F ... Skip -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Sad news: Fredrik Lundh ("Effbot") has passed away
On Saturday, December 11, 2021 at 1:37:07 AM UTC, Roel Schroeven wrote: > Message from Guido van Rossum > (https://mail.python.org/archives/list/pytho...@python.org/thread/36Q5QBILL3QIFIA3KHNGFBNJQKXKN7SD/): > > > > A former core dev who works at Google just passed the news that > > Fredrik Lundh (also known as Effbot) has died. > > > > Fredrik was an early Python contributor (e.g. Elementtree and the 're' > > module) and his enthusiasm for the language and community were > > inspiring for all who encountered him or his work. He spent countless > > hours on comp.lang.python answering questions from newbies and > > advanced users alike. > > > > He also co-founded an early Python startup, Secret Labs AB, which > > among other software released an IDE named PythonWorks. Fredrik also > > created the Python Imaging Library (PIL) which is still THE way to > > interact with images in Python, now most often through its Pillow > > fork. His effbot.org site was a valuable resource for generations of > > Python users, especially its Tkinter documentation. > > > > Fredrik's private Facebook page contains the following message from > > November 25 by Ylva Larensson (translated from Swedish): > > > > """ > > > > It is with such sorrow and pain that I write this. Fredrik has left us > > suddenly. > > > > """ > > > > A core dev wrote: "I felt privileged to be able to study Fredrik's > > code and to read his writing. He was a huge asset to our community in > > the early days. I enjoyed his sense of humor as well. I'm sad that he > > passed away." > > > > We will miss him. > > > > -- > "Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether they could, they didn't > stop to think if they should" > -- Dr. Ian Malcolm Thanks for passing on this sad news. Effbot was one of the luminaries when I started writing Python (v1.4/v1.52 times). I still have his 'standard library' book, as well as being a user of PIL/Pillow. Jon N -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
