| Behold, mortal, the origins of Beautiful Soup... |
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| Leonard Richardson is the primary programmer. |
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| Aaron DeVore is awesome. |
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| Mark Pilgrim provided the encoding detection code that forms the base |
| of UnicodeDammit. |
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| Thomas Kluyver and Ezio Melotti finished the work of getting Beautiful |
| Soup 4 working under Python 3. |
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| Simon Willison wrote soupselect, which was used to make Beautiful Soup |
| support CSS selectors. |
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| Sam Ruby helped with a lot of edge cases. |
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| Jonathan Ellis was awarded the prestigous Beau Potage D'Or for his |
| work in solving the nestable tags conundrum. |
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| An incomplete list of people have contributed patches to Beautiful |
| Soup: |
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| Istvan Albert, Andrew Lin, Anthony Baxter, Andrew Boyko, Tony Chang, |
| Zephyr Fang, Fuzzy, Roman Gaufman, Yoni Gilad, Richie Hindle, Peteris |
| Krumins, Kent Johnson, Ben Last, Robert Leftwich, Staffan Malmgren, |
| Ksenia Marasanova, JP Moins, Adam Monsen, John Nagle, "Jon", Ed |
| Oskiewicz, Greg Phillips, Giles Radford, Arthur Rudolph, Marko |
| Samastur, Jouni Seppänen, Alexander Schmolck, Andy Theyers, Glyn |
| Webster, Paul Wright, Danny Yoo |
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| An incomplete list of people who made suggestions or found bugs or |
| found ways to break Beautiful Soup: |
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| Hanno Böck, Matteo Bertini, Chris Curvey, Simon Cusack, Bruce Eckel, |
| Matt Ernst, Michael Foord, Tom Harris, Bill de hOra, Donald Howes, |
| Matt Patterson, Scott Roberts, Steve Strassmann, Mike Williams, |
| warchild at redho dot com, Sami Kuisma, Carlos Rocha, Bob Hutchison, |
| Joren Mc, Michal Migurski, John Kleven, Tim Heaney, Tripp Lilley, Ed |
| Summers, Dennis Sutch, Chris Smith, Aaron Sweep^W Swartz, Stuart |
| Turner, Greg Edwards, Kevin J Kalupson, Nikos Kouremenos, Artur de |
| Sousa Rocha, Yichun Wei, Per Vognsen |