Acknowledgements
----------------

This list is not complete and not in any useful order, but I would
like to thank everybody who contributed in any way, with code, hints,
bug reports, ideas, moral support, endorsement, or even complaints....
Without you I would've stopped working on Python long ago!

	--Guido

PS: In the standard Python distribution this file is encoded in Latin-1.

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