python · nedbat · Feb 19, 2026 · Feb 19, 2026 · Feb 19, 2026
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 Buffer Protocol
 ---------------
 
-.. sectionauthor:: Greg Stein <gstein@lyra.org>
-.. sectionauthor:: Benjamin Peterson
-.. sectionauthor:: Stefan Krah
-
-
 Certain objects available in Python wrap access to an underlying memory
 array or *buffer*.  Such objects include the built-in :class:`bytes` and
 :class:`bytearray`, and some extension types like :class:`array.array`.

@@ -7,8 +7,6 @@
 Code Objects
 ------------
 
-.. sectionauthor:: Jeffrey Yasskin <jyasskin@gmail.com>
-
 Code objects are a low-level detail of the CPython implementation.
 Each one represents a chunk of executable code that hasn't yet been
 bound into a function.

@@ -1916,9 +1916,6 @@ pointer and a void pointer argument.
 Profiling and Tracing
 =====================
 
-.. sectionauthor:: Fred L. Drake, Jr. <fdrake@acm.org>
-
-
 The Python interpreter provides some low-level support for attaching profiling
 and execution tracing facilities.  These are used for profiling, debugging, and
 coverage analysis tools.
@@ -2148,9 +2145,6 @@ Reference tracing
 Advanced Debugger Support
 =========================
 
-.. sectionauthor:: Fred L. Drake, Jr. <fdrake@acm.org>
-
-
 These functions are only intended to be used by advanced debugging tools.
 
 
@@ -2187,8 +2181,6 @@ These functions are only intended to be used by advanced debugging tools.
 Thread Local Storage Support
 ============================
 
-.. sectionauthor:: Masayuki Yamamoto <ma3yuki.8mamo10@gmail.com>
-
 The Python interpreter provides low-level support for thread-local storage
 (TLS) which wraps the underlying native TLS implementation to support the
 Python-level thread local storage API (:class:`threading.local`).  The

@@ -7,10 +7,6 @@
 Memory Management
 *****************
 
-.. sectionauthor:: Vladimir Marangozov <Vladimir.Marangozov@inrialpes.fr>
-
-
-
 .. _memoryoverview:
 
 Overview

@@ -5,9 +5,6 @@
 Set Objects
 -----------
 
-.. sectionauthor:: Raymond D. Hettinger <python@rcn.com>
-
-
 .. index::
    pair: object; set
    pair: object; frozenset

@@ -2632,9 +2632,6 @@ This is done by filling a :c:type:`PyType_Spec` structure and calling
 Number Object Structures
 ------------------------
 
-.. sectionauthor:: Amaury Forgeot d'Arc
-
-
 .. c:type:: PyNumberMethods
 
    This structure holds pointers to the functions which an object uses to
@@ -2852,9 +2849,6 @@ Number Object Structures
 Mapping Object Structures
 -------------------------
 
-.. sectionauthor:: Amaury Forgeot d'Arc
-
-
 .. c:type:: PyMappingMethods
 
    This structure holds pointers to the functions which an object uses to
@@ -2895,9 +2889,6 @@ Mapping Object Structures
 Sequence Object Structures
 --------------------------
 
-.. sectionauthor:: Amaury Forgeot d'Arc
-
-
 .. c:type:: PySequenceMethods
 
    This structure holds pointers to the functions which an object uses to
@@ -2991,10 +2982,6 @@ Sequence Object Structures
 Buffer Object Structures
 ------------------------
 
-.. sectionauthor:: Greg J. Stein <greg@lyra.org>
-.. sectionauthor:: Benjamin Peterson
-.. sectionauthor:: Stefan Krah
-
 .. c:type:: PyBufferProcs
 
    This structure holds pointers to the functions required by the
@@ -3090,8 +3077,6 @@ Buffer Object Structures
 Async Object Structures
 -----------------------
 
-.. sectionauthor:: Yury Selivanov <yselivanov@sprymix.com>
-
 .. versionadded:: 3.5
 
 .. c:type:: PyAsyncMethods

@@ -5,9 +5,6 @@
 Unicode Objects and Codecs
 --------------------------
 
-.. sectionauthor:: Marc-André Lemburg <mal@lemburg.com>
-.. sectionauthor:: Georg Brandl <georg@python.org>
-
 Unicode Objects
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 

diff --git a/Doc/extending/extending.rst b/Doc/extending/extending.rst
@@ -903,9 +903,6 @@ define this symbol).
 Providing a C API for an Extension Module
 =========================================
 
-.. sectionauthor:: Konrad Hinsen <hinsen@cnrs-orleans.fr>
-
-
 Many extension modules just provide new functions and types to be used from
 Python, but sometimes the code in an extension module can be useful for other
 extension modules. For example, an extension module could implement a type

diff --git a/Doc/extending/newtypes_tutorial.rst b/Doc/extending/newtypes_tutorial.rst
@@ -6,11 +6,6 @@
 Defining Extension Types: Tutorial
 **********************************
 
-.. sectionauthor:: Michael Hudson <mwh@python.net>
-.. sectionauthor:: Dave Kuhlman <dkuhlman@rexx.com>
-.. sectionauthor:: Jim Fulton <jim@zope.com>
-
-
 Python allows the writer of a C extension module to define new types that
 can be manipulated from Python code, much like the built-in :class:`str`
 and :class:`list` types.  The code for all extension types follows a

diff --git a/Doc/extending/windows.rst b/Doc/extending/windows.rst
@@ -47,9 +47,6 @@ things manually, it may be instructive to study the project file for the
 Differences Between Unix and Windows
 ====================================
 
-.. sectionauthor:: Chris Phoenix <cphoenix@best.com>
-
-
 Unix and Windows use completely different paradigms for run-time loading of
 code.  Before you try to build a module that can be dynamically loaded, be aware
 of how your system works.
@@ -109,9 +106,6 @@ separate copy.
 Using DLLs in Practice
 ======================
 
-.. sectionauthor:: Chris Phoenix <cphoenix@best.com>
-
-
 Windows Python is built in Microsoft Visual C++; using other compilers may or
 may not work.  The rest of this section is MSVC++ specific.
 

@@ -1564,9 +1564,6 @@ process. This can be set up using a process management tool such as Supervisor -
 Using file rotation
 -------------------
 
-.. sectionauthor:: Doug Hellmann, Vinay Sajip (changes)
-.. (see <https://pymotw.com/3/logging/>)
-
 Sometimes you want to let a log file grow to a certain size, then open a new
 file and log to that. You may want to keep a certain number of these files, and
 when that many files have been created, rotate the files so that the number of

diff --git a/Doc/library/abc.rst b/Doc/library/abc.rst
@@ -4,10 +4,6 @@
 .. module:: abc
    :synopsis: Abstract base classes according to :pep:`3119`.
 
-.. moduleauthor:: Guido van Rossum
-.. sectionauthor:: Georg Brandl
-.. much of the content adapted from docstrings
-
 **Source code:** :source:`Lib/abc.py`
 
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 .. module:: argparse
    :synopsis: Command-line option and argument parsing library.
 
-.. moduleauthor:: Steven Bethard <steven.bethard@gmail.com>
-.. sectionauthor:: Steven Bethard <steven.bethard@gmail.com>
-
 .. versionadded:: 3.2
 
 **Source code:** :source:`Lib/argparse.py`

diff --git a/Doc/library/ast.rst b/Doc/library/ast.rst
@@ -4,9 +4,6 @@
 .. module:: ast
    :synopsis: Abstract Syntax Tree classes and manipulation.
 
-.. sectionauthor:: Martin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de>
-.. sectionauthor:: Georg Brandl <georg@python.org>
-
 .. testsetup::
 
     import ast

diff --git a/Doc/library/atexit.rst b/Doc/library/atexit.rst
@@ -4,9 +4,6 @@
 .. module:: atexit
    :synopsis: Register and execute cleanup functions.
 
-.. moduleauthor:: Skip Montanaro <skip.montanaro@gmail.com>
-.. sectionauthor:: Skip Montanaro <skip.montanaro@gmail.com>
-
 --------------
 
 The :mod:`!atexit` module defines functions to register and unregister cleanup

@@ -3,9 +3,6 @@
 
 .. module:: bisect
    :synopsis: Array bisection algorithms for binary searching.
-.. sectionauthor:: Fred L. Drake, Jr. <fdrake@acm.org>
-.. sectionauthor:: Raymond Hettinger <python at rcn.com>
-.. example based on the PyModules FAQ entry by Aaron Watters <arw@pythonpros.com>
 
 **Source code:** :source:`Lib/bisect.py`
 

diff --git a/Doc/library/bz2.rst b/Doc/library/bz2.rst
@@ -4,11 +4,6 @@
 .. module:: bz2
    :synopsis: Interfaces for bzip2 compression and decompression.
 
-.. moduleauthor:: Gustavo Niemeyer <niemeyer@conectiva.com>
-.. moduleauthor:: Nadeem Vawda <nadeem.vawda@gmail.com>
-.. sectionauthor:: Gustavo Niemeyer <niemeyer@conectiva.com>
-.. sectionauthor:: Nadeem Vawda <nadeem.vawda@gmail.com>
-
 **Source code:** :source:`Lib/bz2.py`
 
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diff --git a/Doc/library/calendar.rst b/Doc/library/calendar.rst
@@ -5,8 +5,6 @@
    :synopsis: Functions for working with calendars, including some emulation
               of the Unix cal program.
 
-.. sectionauthor:: Drew Csillag <drew_csillag@geocities.com>
-
 **Source code:** :source:`Lib/calendar.py`
 
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diff --git a/Doc/library/cmd.rst b/Doc/library/cmd.rst
@@ -4,8 +4,6 @@
 .. module:: cmd
    :synopsis: Build line-oriented command interpreters.
 
-.. sectionauthor:: Eric S. Raymond <esr@snark.thyrsus.com>
-
 **Source code:** :source:`Lib/cmd.py`
 
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@@ -243,8 +241,6 @@ Instances of :class:`Cmd` subclasses have some public instance variables:
 Cmd Example
 -----------
 
-.. sectionauthor:: Raymond Hettinger <python at rcn dot com>
-
 The :mod:`!cmd` module is mainly useful for building custom shells that let a
 user work with a program interactively.
 

diff --git a/Doc/library/codecs.rst b/Doc/library/codecs.rst
@@ -4,10 +4,6 @@
 .. module:: codecs
    :synopsis: Encode and decode data and streams.
 
-.. moduleauthor:: Marc-André Lemburg <mal@lemburg.com>
-.. sectionauthor:: Marc-André Lemburg <mal@lemburg.com>
-.. sectionauthor:: Martin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de>
-
 **Source code:** :source:`Lib/codecs.py`
 
 .. index::
@@ -1616,7 +1612,6 @@ This module implements the following exception:
 
 .. module:: encodings.idna
    :synopsis: Internationalized Domain Names implementation
-.. moduleauthor:: Martin v. Löwis
 
 This module implements :rfc:`3490` (Internationalized Domain Names in
 Applications) and :rfc:`3492` (Nameprep: A Stringprep Profile for
@@ -1700,7 +1695,6 @@ This module implements the ANSI codepage (CP_ACP).
 
 .. module:: encodings.utf_8_sig
    :synopsis: UTF-8 codec with BOM signature
-.. moduleauthor:: Walter Dörwald
 
 This module implements a variant of the UTF-8 codec. On encoding, a UTF-8 encoded
 BOM will be prepended to the UTF-8 encoded bytes. For the stateful encoder this

diff --git a/Doc/library/codeop.rst b/Doc/library/codeop.rst
@@ -4,9 +4,6 @@
 .. module:: codeop
    :synopsis: Compile (possibly incomplete) Python code.
 
-.. sectionauthor:: Moshe Zadka <moshez@zadka.site.co.il>
-.. sectionauthor:: Michael Hudson <mwh@python.net>
-
 **Source code:** :source:`Lib/codeop.py`
 
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 .. module:: collections.abc
    :synopsis: Abstract base classes for containers
 
-.. moduleauthor:: Raymond Hettinger <python at rcn.com>
-.. sectionauthor:: Raymond Hettinger <python at rcn.com>
-
 .. versionadded:: 3.3
    Formerly, this module was part of the :mod:`collections` module.
 

@@ -4,9 +4,6 @@
 .. module:: collections
     :synopsis: Container datatypes
 
-.. moduleauthor:: Raymond Hettinger <python@rcn.com>
-.. sectionauthor:: Raymond Hettinger <python@rcn.com>
-
 **Source code:** :source:`Lib/collections/__init__.py`
 
 .. testsetup:: *

diff --git a/Doc/library/colorsys.rst b/Doc/library/colorsys.rst
@@ -4,8 +4,6 @@
 .. module:: colorsys
    :synopsis: Conversion functions between RGB and other color systems.
 
-.. sectionauthor:: David Ascher <da@python.net>
-
 **Source code:** :source:`Lib/colorsys.py`
 
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@@ -4,9 +4,6 @@
 .. module:: concurrent.interpreters
    :synopsis: Multiple interpreters in the same process
 
-.. moduleauthor:: Eric Snow <ericsnowcurrently@gmail.com>
-.. sectionauthor:: Eric Snow <ericsnowcurrently@gmail.com>
-
 .. versionadded:: 3.14
 
 **Source code:** :source:`Lib/concurrent/interpreters`

diff --git a/Doc/library/configparser.rst b/Doc/library/configparser.rst
@@ -4,13 +4,6 @@
 .. module:: configparser
    :synopsis: Configuration file parser.
 
-.. moduleauthor:: Ken Manheimer <klm@zope.com>
-.. moduleauthor:: Barry Warsaw <bwarsaw@python.org>
-.. moduleauthor:: Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>
-.. moduleauthor:: Łukasz Langa <lukasz@langa.pl>
-.. sectionauthor:: Christopher G. Petrilli <petrilli@amber.org>
-.. sectionauthor:: Łukasz Langa <lukasz@langa.pl>
-
 **Source code:** :source:`Lib/configparser.py`
 
 .. index::

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 .. module:: contextvars
    :synopsis: Context Variables
 
-.. sectionauthor:: Yury Selivanov <yury@magic.io>
-
 --------------
 
 This module provides APIs to manage, store, and access context-local

diff --git a/Doc/library/csv.rst b/Doc/library/csv.rst
@@ -4,8 +4,6 @@
 .. module:: csv
    :synopsis: Write and read tabular data to and from delimited files.
 
-.. sectionauthor:: Skip Montanaro <skip.montanaro@gmail.com>
-
 **Source code:** :source:`Lib/csv.py`
 
 .. index::

diff --git a/Doc/library/ctypes.rst b/Doc/library/ctypes.rst
@@ -4,8 +4,6 @@
 .. module:: ctypes
    :synopsis: A foreign function library for Python.
 
-.. moduleauthor:: Thomas Heller <theller@python.net>
-
 **Source code:** :source:`Lib/ctypes`
 
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diff --git a/Doc/library/curses.ascii.rst b/Doc/library/curses.ascii.rst
@@ -4,9 +4,6 @@
 .. module:: curses.ascii
    :synopsis: Constants and set-membership functions for ASCII characters.
 
-.. moduleauthor:: Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>
-.. sectionauthor:: Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>
-
 **Source code:** :source:`Lib/curses/ascii.py`
 
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