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(from LICENSE.txt):
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Python-Future is written and maintained by Ed Schofield with the help of various contributors:
- Ed Schofield <ed@pythoncharmers.com>
- Jacob Beck
- Denis Cornehl
- Nicolas Delaby
- Corey Farwell
- Eric Firing
- Michael Joseph
- Waldemar Kornewald
- Alexey Kotlyarov
- Lion Krischer
- Marcin Kuzminski
- Joshua Landau
- German Larrain
- Chris Lasher
- Elliott Sales de Andrade
- Tim Shaffer
- Daniel Szoska
- Jeff Tratner
- Tim Tröndle
- Brad Walker
- Mystic-Mirage (GitHub)
- str4d (GitHub)
- 9seconds (GitHub)
- Varriount (GitHub)
- Chris Adams
- Martijn Faassen
- Lion Krischer
- Danielle Madeley
- Val Markovic
- wluebbe (GitHub)
- The backported
super()andrange()functions are derived from Ryan Kelly'smagicsupermodule and Dan Crosta'sxrangemodule. - The
futurizeandpasteurizescripts uselib2to3,lib3to2, and parts of Armin Ronacher'spython-modernizecode. - The
python_2_unicode_compatibledecorator is from Django. Theimplements_iteratorandwith_metaclassdecorators are from Jinja2. - The
exec_function and some others infuture.utilsare from thesixmodule by Benjamin Peterson. - The
raise_andraise_with_tracebackfunctions were contributed by Jeff Tratner. - A working version of
raise_fromwas contributed by Varriount (GitHub). - Documentation is generated with Sphinx using the
sphinx-bootstraptheme. past.translationis inspired by and borrows some code from Sanjay Vinip'suprefixmodule.