[Python-Dev] Re: Sad news from Zurich

2021-12-11 Thread Abdur-Rahmaan Janhangeer 
I spent a lot of hours on effbot learning
Tkinter. Never knew he was a Python
contributor ...
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[Python-Dev] Re: [python-committers] Sad news from Zurich

2021-12-11 Thread Kyle Stanley 
May he rest in peace, I can't even fathom the impact PIL has had on Python
over the years.

On Fri, Dec 10, 2021 at 3:20 PM Guido van Rossum  wrote:

> A former core dev who works at Google just passed the news that Fredrik
> Lundh (also known as Effbot) has died.
>
> Fredrik was an early Python contributor (e.g. Elementtree and the 're'
> module) and his enthusiasm for the language and community were inspiring
> for all who encountered him or his work. He spent countless hours on
> comp.lang.python answering questions from newbies and advanced users alike.
>
> He also co-founded an early Python startup, Secret Labs AB, which among
> other software released an IDE named PythonWorks. Fredrik also created the
> Python Imaging Library (PIL) which is still THE way to interact with images
> in Python, now most often through its Pillow fork. His effbot.org site
> was a valuable resource for generations of Python users, especially its
> Tkinter documentation.
>
> Fredrik's private Facebook page contains the following message from
> November 25 by Ylva Larensson (translated from Swedish):
>
> """
>
> It is with such sorrow and pain that I write this. Fredrik has left us
> suddenly.
>
> """
>
> A core dev wrote: "I felt privileged to be able to study Fredrik's code
> and to read his writing. He was a huge asset to our community in the early
> days. I enjoyed his sense of humor as well. I'm sad that he passed away."
>
> We will miss him.
>
>
>
> --
> --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)
> *Pronouns: he/him **(why is my pronoun here?)*
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