Modules/packages by GvR?

[Mark Lawrence]

[fix top posting]

> On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 8:58 AM, gb345 <gb345 at invalid.com> wrote:
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>> 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 the time, as far as I can tell.
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>> I'm interested in reading this code as prime examplars of "Pythonicity".
>> (I'm sure that many other programmers could serve as models of the
>> Pythonic ideal, but I doubt that there would be a *less debatable*
>> choice in this category than GvR.)
>>
>> Many thanks in advance,
>>
>> Gabe
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> 
John Haggerty wrote:
 > 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.
 >

So the poor old BDFL has been reduced to the rank of language 
maintainer.  Is it safe to assume that somebody is organising a whip 
round for him?  Any and all currencies accepted?

-- 
Kindest regards.

Mark Lawrence.