In the early 2000s, ElementTree was such a relief after trying to use the stdlib DOM or SAX parsers. That was my first conscious use of effbot code, and I was grateful for it.
Fredrik Lundh has died
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#42I really liked the look of his site, not just the content, which was, of course, good. I first came across it early in my Python career.
It had a light green theme or look, IIRC.
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#43Fredrik, your work inspired me greatly and your post “notes on Tim Bray’s Wide Finder” taught me how to think better about processing data, which made me pretty good at it, which created my career in data. Thank you - you had a huge impact. Rest in peace and sincere condolences to your family and friends.
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#44:(
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#45Fredrik was an important contributor to YouTube over the years and truly one of a kind. In particular, he was critical to the internationalization efforts. Whenever I ran into him on email or in Zurich, it brightened my day.
Such a good guy. I remember he raised a very gnarly translation issue one time in which we translated something that said “Share them” that unintentionally translated to “cut them up into pieces and share them at dinner” in Swedish. Fredrik was very passionate in trying to correct the issue in a hurry :)
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#46The library that I first used which got me stuck to Python was Tkinter. It was a welcome relief from building GUIs using GTK in C. The documentation which I used was from effbot (which seems to be offline now) http://web.archive.org/web/20180802131839/http://effbot.org/... . That led me to making Python my "primary language" when it still wasn't very popular and shaped my career. I think it's hard, if not impossible,…
You're not alone in that sequence. I think a few of us here saw "effbot" in that email and felt our minds simultaneously trace back where we heard it as our heart sank. He was a big python contributor, it seems, but I wonder if he realizes how much that little guide shaped the internal tooling of many major companies.
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#47The effbot was an early mentor me. He had a brusque style, an excellent sense of design, and a wry wit. He thought deeply about programming problems and did not shy away from non-trivial tasks such as regular expressions. His ElementTree library humanized XML parsing and generation in Python.
I don't remember any particular early interactions, probably just hundreds of little ones over the decades. He was a force for good and will be missed.
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#48Black bar? I don't think there's anyone who has used Python who hasn't used his work. His website was always amusing, occasionally useful, and frequently educational. The announcement said it was sudden. I hope it wasn't COVID. RIP, effbot.
Agree that this is black bar-worthy. His name is all over so many parts of the Python ecosystem. Author of etree, re, and the original unicode implementations for Python.
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#49Earlier quoted context omitted.
Such a good guy. I remember he raised a very gnarly translation issue one time in which we translated something that said “Share them” that unintentionally translated to “cut them up into pieces and share them at dinner” in Swedish. Fredrik was very passionate in trying to correct the issue in a hurry :)
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