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Contributor List
To paraphrase the philosophy of the Free Software Foundation, this
book is free like free speech, but not necessarily free like free
pizza. It came about because of a collaboration that would not have
been possible without the GNU Free Documentation License. So we
thank the Free Software Foundation for developing this license
and, of course, making it available to us.
We also thank the more than 100 sharp-eyed and
thoughtful readers who have sent us suggestions and corrections over
the past few years. In the spirit of free software, we decided to
express our gratitude in the form of a contributor list. Unfortunately,
this list is not complete, but we are doing our best to keep it
up to date.
If you have a chance to look through the list, you should
realize that each person here has spared you and all subsequent
readers from the confusion of a technical error or a
less-than-transparent explanation, just by sending us a note.
Impossible as it may seem after so many corrections, there may still
be errors in this book. If you should stumble across one, please
check the online version of the book at http://thinkpython.com,
which is the most up-to-date version. If the error has not been
corrected, please take a minute to send us email at [email protected]. If we make a change due to your
suggestion, you will appear in the next version of the contributor
list (unless you ask to be omitted). Thank you!
- Lloyd Hugh Allen sent in a correction to Section 8.4.
- Yvon Boulianne sent in a correction of a semantic error in
Chapter 5.
- Fred Bremmer submitted a correction in Section 2.1.
- Jonah Cohen wrote the Perl scripts to convert the
LaTeX source for this book into beautiful HTML.
- Michael Conlon sent in a grammar correction in Chapter 2
and an improvement in style in Chapter 1, and he initiated discussion
on the technical aspects of interpreters.
- Benoit Girard sent in a
correction to a humorous mistake in Section 5.6.
- Courtney Gleason and Katherine Smith wrote
horsebet.py ,
which was used as a case study in an earlier version of the book. Their
program can now be found on the website.
- Lee Harr submitted more corrections than we have room to list
here, and indeed he should be listed as one of the principal editors
of the text.
- James Kaylin is a student using the text. He has submitted
numerous corrections.
- David Kershaw fixed the broken
catTwice function in Section
3.10.
- Eddie Lam has sent in numerous corrections to Chapters
1, 2, and 3.
He also fixed the Makefile so that it creates an index the first time it is
run and helped us set up a versioning scheme.
- Man-Yong Lee sent in a correction to the example code in
Section 2.4.
- David Mayo pointed out that the word "unconsciously"
in Chapter 1 needed
to be changed to "subconsciously".
- Chris McAloon sent in several corrections to Sections 3.9 and
3.10.
- Matthew J. Moelter has been a long-time contributor who sent
in numerous corrections and suggestions to the book.
- Simon Dicon Montford reported a missing function definition and
several typos in Chapter 3. He also found errors in the
increment
function in Chapter 13.
- John Ouzts corrected the definition of "return value"
in Chapter 3.
- Kevin Parks sent in valuable comments and suggestions as to how
to improve the distribution of the book.
- David Pool sent in a typo in the glossary of Chapter 1, as well
as kind words of encouragement.
- Michael Schmitt sent in a correction to the chapter on files
and exceptions.
- Robin Shaw pointed out an error in Section 13.1, where the
printTime function was used in an example without being defined.
- Paul Sleigh found an error in Chapter 7 and a bug in Jonah Cohen's
Perl script that generates HTML from LaTeX.
- Craig T. Snydal is testing the text in a course at Drew
University. He has contributed several valuable suggestions and corrections.
- Ian Thomas and his students are using the text in a programming
course. They are the first ones to test the chapters in the latter half
of the book, and they have made numerous corrections and suggestions.
- Keith Verheyden sent in a correction in Chapter 3.
- Peter Winstanley let us know about a longstanding error in
our Latin in Chapter 3.
- Chris Wrobel made corrections to the code in the chapter on
file I/O and exceptions.
- Moshe Zadka has made invaluable contributions to this project.
In addition to writing the first draft of the chapter on Dictionaries, he
provided continual guidance in the early stages of the book.
- Christoph Zwerschke sent several corrections and
pedagogic suggestions, and explained the difference between gleich
and selbe.
- James Mayer sent us a whole slew of spelling and
typographical errors, including two in the contributor list.
- Hayden McAfee caught a potentially confusing inconsistency
between two examples.
- Angel Arnal is part of an international team of translators
working on the Spanish version of the text. He has also found several
errors in the English version.
- Tauhidul Hoque and Lex Berezhny created the illustrations
in Chapter 1 and improved many of the other illustrations.
- Dr. Michele Alzetta caught an error in Chapter 8 and sent
some interesting pedagogic comments and suggestions about Fibonacci
and Old Maid.
- Andy Mitchell caught a typo in Chapter 1 and a broken example
in Chapter 2.
- Kalin Harvey suggested a clarification in Chapter 7 and
caught some typos.
- Christopher P. Smith caught several typos and is helping us
prepare to update the book for Python 2.2.
- David Hutchins caught a typo in the Foreword.
- Gregor Lingl is teaching Python at a high school in Vienna,
Austria. He is working on a German translation of the book,
and he caught a couple of bad errors in Chapter 5.
- Julie Peters caught a typo in the Preface.
- Florin Oprina sent in an improvement in
makeTime ,
a correction in printTime , and a nice typo.
- D.~J.~Webre suggested a clarification in Chapter 3.
- Ken found a fistful of errors in Chapters 8, 9 and 11.
- Ivo Wever caught a typo in Chapter 5 and suggested a clarification
in Chapter 3.
- Curtis Yanko suggested a clarification in Chapter 2.
- Ben Logan sent in a number of typos and problems with translating
the book into HTML.
- Jason Armstrong saw the missing word in Chapter 2.
- Louis Cordier noticed a spot in Chapter 16 where the code
didn't match the text.
- Brian Cain suggested several clarifications in Chapters 2 and 3.
- Rob Black sent in a passel of corrections, including some
changes for Python 2.2.
- Jean-Philippe Rey at Ecole Centrale
Paris sent a number of patches, including some updates for Python 2.2
and other thoughtful improvements.
- Jason Mader at George Washington University made a number
of useful suggestions and corrections.
- Jan Gundtofte-Bruun reminded us that "a error" is an error.
- Abel David and Alexis Dinno reminded us that the plural of
"matrix" is "matrices", not "matrixes". This error was in the
book for years, but two readers with the same initials reported it on
the same day. Weird.
- Charles Thayer encouraged us to get rid of the semi-colons
we had put at the ends of some statements and to clean up our
use of "argument" and "parameter".
- Roger Sperberg pointed out a twisted piece of logic in Chapter 3.
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