| Patrick Williams | c124f4f | 2015-09-15 14:41:29 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 1 | Behold, mortal, the origins of Beautiful Soup... |
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| 3 | |
| 4 | Leonard Richardson is the primary programmer. |
| 5 | |
| 6 | Aaron DeVore is awesome. |
| 7 | |
| 8 | Mark Pilgrim provided the encoding detection code that forms the base |
| 9 | of UnicodeDammit. |
| 10 | |
| 11 | Thomas Kluyver and Ezio Melotti finished the work of getting Beautiful |
| 12 | Soup 4 working under Python 3. |
| 13 | |
| 14 | Simon Willison wrote soupselect, which was used to make Beautiful Soup |
| 15 | support CSS selectors. |
| 16 | |
| 17 | Sam Ruby helped with a lot of edge cases. |
| 18 | |
| 19 | Jonathan Ellis was awarded the prestigous Beau Potage D'Or for his |
| 20 | work in solving the nestable tags conundrum. |
| 21 | |
| 22 | An incomplete list of people have contributed patches to Beautiful |
| 23 | Soup: |
| 24 | |
| 25 | Istvan Albert, Andrew Lin, Anthony Baxter, Andrew Boyko, Tony Chang, |
| 26 | Zephyr Fang, Fuzzy, Roman Gaufman, Yoni Gilad, Richie Hindle, Peteris |
| 27 | Krumins, Kent Johnson, Ben Last, Robert Leftwich, Staffan Malmgren, |
| 28 | Ksenia Marasanova, JP Moins, Adam Monsen, John Nagle, "Jon", Ed |
| 29 | Oskiewicz, Greg Phillips, Giles Radford, Arthur Rudolph, Marko |
| 30 | Samastur, Jouni Seppänen, Alexander Schmolck, Andy Theyers, Glyn |
| 31 | Webster, Paul Wright, Danny Yoo |
| 32 | |
| 33 | An incomplete list of people who made suggestions or found bugs or |
| 34 | found ways to break Beautiful Soup: |
| 35 | |
| 36 | Hanno Böck, Matteo Bertini, Chris Curvey, Simon Cusack, Bruce Eckel, |
| 37 | Matt Ernst, Michael Foord, Tom Harris, Bill de hOra, Donald Howes, |
| 38 | Matt Patterson, Scott Roberts, Steve Strassmann, Mike Williams, |
| 39 | warchild at redho dot com, Sami Kuisma, Carlos Rocha, Bob Hutchison, |
| 40 | Joren Mc, Michal Migurski, John Kleven, Tim Heaney, Tripp Lilley, Ed |
| 41 | Summers, Dennis Sutch, Chris Smith, Aaron Sweep^W Swartz, Stuart |
| 42 | Turner, Greg Edwards, Kevin J Kalupson, Nikos Kouremenos, Artur de |
| 43 | Sousa Rocha, Yichun Wei, Per Vognsen |