Mourning Fredrik "Effbot" Lundh

Guido van Rossum has posted the sad news that longtime Pythoncontributor Fredrik Lundh has died.

Fredrik was an early Python contributor (e.g. Elementtree and the're' module) and his enthusiasm for the language and community wereinspiring for all who encountered him or his work. He spentcountless hours on comp.lang.python answering questions fromnewbies and advanced users alike.

He also co-founded an early Python startup, Secret Labs AB, whichamong other software released an IDE named PythonWorks. Fredrikalso created the Python Imaging Library (PIL) which is still THEway to interact with images in Python, now most often through itsPillow fork. His effbot.org site was a valuable resource forgenerations of Python users, especially its Tkinter documentation.