22. Experts Index

Warning

At present, this is not much modified from the CPython base.

This document has tables that list Python Modules, Tools, Platforms and Interest Areas and names for each item that indicate a maintainer or an expert in the field. This list is intended to be used by issue submitters, issue triage people, and other issue participants to find people to add to the nosy list or to contact directly by email for help and decisions on feature requests and bug fixes. People on this list may be asked to render final judgement on a feature or bug. If no active maintainer is listed for a given module, then questionable changes should go to python-dev, while any other issues can and should be decided by any committer.

Unless a name is followed by a ‘*’, you should never assign an issue to that person, only make them nosy. Names followed by a ‘*’ may be assigned issues involving the module or topic.

The Platform and Interest Area tables list broader fields in which various people have expertise. These people can also be contacted for help, opinions, and decisions when issues involve their areas.

If a listed maintainer does not respond to requests for comment for an extended period (three weeks or more), they should be marked as inactive in this list by placing the word ‘inactive’ in parenthesis behind their tracker id. They are of course free to remove that inactive mark at any time.

Committers should update these tables as their areas of expertise widen. New topics may be added to the Interest Area table at will.

The existence of this list is not meant to indicate that these people must be contacted for decisions; it is, rather, a resource to be used by non-committers to find responsible parties, and by committers who do not feel qualified to make a decision in a particular context.

See also PEP 291 and PEP 360 for information about certain modules with special rules.

22.1. Stdlib

Module Maintainers
__future__  
__main__ gvanrossum, ncoghlan
_dummy_thread brett.cannon
_thread  
_testbuffer skrah
abc  
aifc r.david.murray
argparse bethard
array  
ast benjamin.peterson
asynchat josiahcarlson, giampaolo.rodola*, stutzbach
asyncio haypo, yselivanov, giampaolo.rodola
asyncore josiahcarlson, giampaolo.rodola*, stutzbach
atexit  
audioop serhiy.storchaka
base64  
bdb  
binascii  
binhex  
bisect rhettinger
builtins  
bz2  
calendar rhettinger
cgi  
cgitb  
chunk  
cmath mark.dickinson
cmd  
code  
codecs lemburg, doerwalter
codeop  
collections rhettinger
collections.abc rhettinger, stutzbach
colorsys  
compileall  
concurrent.futures bquinlan
configparser lukasz.langa*
contextlib ncoghlan, yselivanov
copy alexandre.vassalotti
copyreg alexandre.vassalotti
cProfile  
crypt jafo*
csv skip.montanaro (inactive)
ctypes theller (inactive), belopolsky, amaury.forgeotdarc, meador.inge
curses twouters
datetime belopolsky
dbm  
decimal facundobatista, rhettinger, mark.dickinson, skrah
difflib tim.peters (inactive)
dis ncoghlan, yselivanov
distutils eric.araujo, dstufft
doctest tim.peters (inactive)
dummy_threading brett.cannon
email barry, r.david.murray*
encodings lemburg, loewis
ensurepip ncoghlan, dstufft
enum eli.bendersky*, barry, ethan.furman*
errno twouters
exceptions  
faulthandler haypo
fcntl twouters
filecmp  
fileinput  
fnmatch  
formatter  
fpectl twouters
fractions mark.dickinson, rhettinger
ftplib giampaolo.rodola*
functools ncoghlan, rhettinger
gc  
getopt  
getpass  
gettext loewis
glob  
grp  
gzip  
hashlib christian.heimes, gregory.p.smith
heapq rhettinger, stutzbach
hmac christian.heimes, gregory.p.smith
html ezio.melotti
http  
idlelib kbk (inactive), terry.reedy*, roger.serwy (inactive)
imaplib  
imghdr  
imp  
importlib brett.cannon
inspect yselivanov
io benjamin.peterson, stutzbach
ipaddress pmoody
itertools rhettinger
json bob.ippolito (inactive), ezio.melotti, rhettinger
keyword  
lib2to3 benjamin.peterson
libmpdec skrah
linecache  
locale loewis, lemburg
logging vinay.sajip
lzma  
macpath  
mailbox  
mailcap  
marshal  
math mark.dickinson, rhettinger, stutzbach
memoryview skrah
mimetypes  
mmap twouters
modulefinder theller (inactive), jvr
msilib loewis
msvcrt  
multiprocessing davin*, pitrou, jnoller (inactive), sbt (inactive)
netrc  
nis  
nntplib  
numbers  
operator  
optparse aronacher
os loewis
os.path serhiy.storchaka
ossaudiodev  
parser benjamin.peterson
pathlib  
pdb  
pickle alexandre.vassalotti
pickletools alexandre.vassalotti
pipes  
pkgutil  
platform lemburg
plistlib  
poplib giampaolo.rodola
posix larry
pprint fdrake
profile  
pstats  
pty twouters*
pwd  
py_compile  
pybench lemburg
pyclbr  
pydoc  
queue rhettinger
quopri  
random rhettinger, mark.dickinson
re effbot (inactive), ezio.melotti, serhiy.storchaka
readline twouters
reprlib  
resource twouters
rlcompleter  
runpy ncoghlan
sched giampaolo.rodola
select  
selectors neologix, giampaolo.rodola
shelve  
shlex  
shutil tarek
signal  
site  
smtpd giampaolo.rodola
smtplib  
sndhdr  
socket  
socketserver  
spwd  
sqlite3 ghaering
ssl janssen, christian.heimes, dstufft, alex
stat christian.heimes
statistics steven.daprano
string  
stringprep  
struct mark.dickinson, meador.inge
subprocess astrand (inactive)
sunau  
symbol  
symtable benjamin.peterson
sys  
sysconfig tarek
syslog jafo*
tabnanny tim.peters (inactive)
tarfile lars.gustaebel
telnetlib  
tempfile  
termios twouters
test ezio.melotti
textwrap  
threading  
time belopolsky
timeit  
tkinter gpolo, serhiy.storchaka
token  
tokenize meador.inge
trace belopolsky
traceback  
tracemalloc haypo
tty twouters*
turtle gregorlingl, willingc
types yselivanov
typing  
unicodedata loewis, lemburg, ezio.melotti
unittest michael.foord*, ezio.melotti, rbcollins
unittest.mock michael.foord*
urllib orsenthil
uu  
uuid  
venv vinay.sajip
warnings  
wave  
weakref fdrake
webbrowser  
winreg stutzbach
winsound effbot (inactive)
wsgiref pje
xdrlib  
xml.dom  
xml.dom.minidom  
xml.dom.pulldom  
xml.etree effbot (inactive), eli.bendersky*, scoder
xml.parsers.expat  
xml.sax  
xml.sax.handler  
xml.sax.saxutils  
xml.sax.xmlreader  
xmlrpc loewis
zipfile alanmcintyre, serhiy.storchaka, twouters
zipimport twouters*
zlib twouters

22.2. Tools

Tool Maintainers
Argument Clinic larry
pybench lemburg

22.3. Platforms

Platform Maintainers
AIX David.Edelsohn
Cygwin jlt63, stutzbach
FreeBSD  
HP-UX  
Linux  
Mac OS X ronaldoussoren, ned.deily
NetBSD1  
OS2/EMX aimacintyre
Solaris/OpenIndiana jcea
Windows tim.golden, zach.ware, steve.dower, paul.moore
JVM/Java frank.wierzbicki

22.4. Miscellaneous

Interest Area Maintainers
algorithms  
argument clinic larry
ast/compiler ncoghlan, benjamin.peterson, brett.cannon, yselivanov
autoconf/makefiles twouters*
bsd  
bug tracker ezio.melotti
buildbots zach.ware
bytecode benjamin.peterson, yselivanov
context managers ncoghlan
coverity scan christian.heimes, brett.cannon, twouters
cryptography gregory.p.smith, dstufft
data formats mark.dickinson
database lemburg
devguide ncoghlan, eric.araujo, ezio.melotti, willingc
documentation ezio.melotti, eric.araujo, willingc
GUI  
i18n lemburg, eric.araujo
import machinery brett.cannon, ncoghlan, eric.snow
io benjamin.peterson, stutzbach
locale lemburg, loewis
mathematics mark.dickinson, eric.smith, lemburg, stutzbach
memory management tim.peters, lemburg, twouters
networking giampaolo.rodola,
object model benjamin.peterson, twouters
packaging tarek, lemburg, alexis, eric.araujo, dstufft, paul.moore
performance brett.cannon, haypo, serhiy.storchaka, yselivanov
pip ncoghlan, dstufft, paul.moore, Marcus.Smith
py3 transition benjamin.peterson
release management tarek, lemburg, benjamin.peterson, barry, loewis, gvanrossum, anthonybaxter, eric.araujo, ned.deily, georg.brandl
str.format eric.smith
testing michael.foord, ezio.melotti
test coverage giampaolo.rodola
threads  
time and dates lemburg, belopolsky
unicode lemburg, ezio.melotti, haypo, benjamin.peterson,
version control eric.araujo, ezio.melotti

22.5. Documentation Translations

Translation Coordinator
French mdk
Japanese inada.naoki
Bengali India kushal.das
Hungarian gbtami
Portuguese rougeth