Person/Tim Peters
Tim Peters
About
- Long-time Py core developer. Author of the Py/Zen of Python (PEP 20) — the aphorisms distilling Python's design philosophy, embedded in the interpreter as the
import this easter egg. The "unless you're Dutch" line is a nod to Guido van Rossum. - Designed Timsort, the hybrid stable sorting algorithm (merge sort plus insertion sort, with a galloping optimization) used by CPython's
list.sort() and sorted() since Python 2.3, and since adopted by Java, Android, and the V8 JavaScript engine. - Wrote the
doctest and timeit standard-library modules. - Received the Python Software Foundation's Distinguished Service Award (2017).
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