Modules/packages by GvR?

2009-08-28 Thread gb345
Are there any Python-only modules or packages in the latest releases of Python 2.x or Python 3.x that were largely written by Guido van Rossum? What's the best way to find this out? I know that some modules mention the author(s) in the source code, but this does not seem to be true most of

Re: Modules/packages by GvR?

2009-08-28 Thread John Haggerty
How is writing code like a language maintainer going to go towards a philosophic ideal? And more principally why would this be of a benefit. In the philosophic world dressing and acting like Socrates isn't necessarily the same as following his ideals and isn't necessarily being Socratic. On Fri,

Re: Modules/packages by GvR?

2009-08-28 Thread Matimus
On Aug 28, 7:58 am, gb345 gb...@invalid.com wrote: Are there any Python-only modules or packages in the latest releases of Python 2.x or Python 3.x that were largely written by Guido van Rossum?  What's the best way to find this out?  I know that some modules mention the author(s) in the

Re: Modules/packages by GvR?

2009-08-28 Thread Mark Lawrence
[fix top posting] On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 8:58 AM, gb345 gb...@invalid.com wrote: Are there any Python-only modules or packages in the latest releases of Python 2.x or Python 3.x that were largely written by Guido van Rossum? What's the best way to find this out? I know that some modules

Re: Modules/packages by GvR?

2009-08-28 Thread Terry Reedy
Matimus wrote: On Aug 28, 7:58 am, gb345 gb...@invalid.com wrote: Are there any Python-only modules or packages in the latest releases of Python 2.x or Python 3.x that were largely written by Guido van Rossum? What's the best way to find this out? I know that some modules mention the

Re: Modules/packages by GvR?

2009-08-28 Thread Benjamin Peterson
Terry Reedy tjreedy at udel.edu writes I am not aware of any recent stdlib modules written by Guido. I suspect most older ones have been updated at least once by someone else. Guido wrote a good deal of the new Python 3 code. However, maintence has now turned over to over Python developers.