Acknowledgements

Special thanks to Bret TAYLOR for original inspiration and battle-tested case study of Friendfeed.

Alex MARTELLI for his assistance and his Cookbook for serving up delicious Python meals.

SQLite is a C library that provides a disk-based database that doesn’t require a separate server process. D. Richard HIPP deserves recognition for putting SQLite in the public domain: solving 80% of data persistance issues, using only 20% of the effort required by other SQL databases. Thus SQLite is the most widely deployed SQL database engine in the world.

The sqlite3 module was written by Gerhard HAERING and provides a SQL interface compliant with the Python DB-API 2.0 specification described by PEP 249. His effort – updating that module from version 2.3.2 in Python 2.5 to version 2.4.1 in Python 2.6 – has been crucial to y_serial. We are counting on him to resolve bug 7723 for an easy transition to Python 3.

zlib was written by Jean-loup GAILLY (compression) and Mark ADLER (decompression). Jean-loup is also the primary author/maintainer of gzip; Mark is also the author of gzip’s and UnZip’s main decompression routines and was the original author of Zip. Not surprisingly, the compression algorithm used in zlib is essentially the same as that in gzip and Zip, namely, the ‘deflate’ method that originated in PKWARE’s PKZIP 2.x.