Behold, mortal, the origins of Beautiful Soup...
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Leonard Richardson is the primary programmer.

Sam Ruby helps with a lot of edge cases.

Mark Pilgrim provided the encoding detection code that forms the base
of UnicodeDammit.

Jonathan Ellis was awarded the prestigous Beau Potage D'Or for his
work in solving the nestable tags conundrum.

The following people have contributed patches to Beautiful Soup:

 Istvan Albert, Andrew Lin, Anthony Baxter, Andrew Boyko, Tony Chang,
 Zephyr Fang, Fuzzy, Roman Gaufman, Yoni Gilad, Richie Hindle, Peteris
 Krumins, Kent Johnson, Ben Last, Robert Leftwich, Staffan Malmgren,
 Ksenia Marasanova, JP Moins, Adam Monsen, John Nagle, "Jon", Ed
 Oskiewicz, Greg Phillips, Giles Radford, Arthur Rudolph, Marko
 Samastur, Jouni Seppänen, Alexander Schmolck, Andy Theyers, Glyn
 Webster, Paul Wright, Danny Yoo

The following people made suggestions or found bugs or found ways to
break Beautiful Soup:

 Hanno Böck, Matteo Bertini, Chris Curvey, Simon Cusack, Matt Ernst,
 Michael Foord, Tom Harris, Bill de hOra, Donald Howes, Matt
 Patterson, Scott Roberts, Steve Strassmann, Mike Williams, warchild
 at redho dot com, Sami Kuisma, Carlos Rocha, Bob Hutchison, Joren Mc,
 Michal Migurski, John Kleven, Tim Heaney, Tripp Lilley, Ed Summers,
 Dennis Sutch, Chris Smith, Aaron Sweep^W Swartz, Stuart Turner, Greg
 Edwards, Kevin J Kalupson, Nikos Kouremenos, Artur de Sousa Rocha,
 Yichun Wei, Per Vognsen