Tim Peters is an American software developer who is known for creating the

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sorting algorithm and for his major contributions to the

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programming language and its original CPython implementation. A pre-1.0 CPython user, he was among the group of early adopters who contributed to the detailed design of the language in its early stages. He later created the Timsort algorithm (based on earlier work on the use of "galloping" search) which has been used in Python since version 2.3, as well as in other widely used computing platforms, including the

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powering the

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and

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web browsers, as well as

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. He has also contributed the doctest and timeit modules to the Python standard library. Peters also wrote the Zen of Python, intended as a statement of Python's design philosophy, which was incorporated into the official Python literature as Python Enhancement Proposal 20 and in the Python interpreter as an easter egg. He contributed th
chapter on algorithms
to the Python Cookbook. From 2001 to 2014 he was active as a member of the Python Software Foundation's board of directors. Peters was an influential contributor to Python mailing lists. He is also a highly ranked contributor to Stack Overflow, mostly for answers relating to Python. Peters' past employers include

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. Tim Peters was granted the Python Software Foundation'
Distinguished Service Award for 2017

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PyCon 2006 interview with Tim Peters

Stack Overflow user page

PythonLabs.com
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