[HN Gopher] Fredrik Lundh has died
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Fredrik Lundh has died
Author : fghorow
Score : 313 points
Date : 2021-12-12 14:16 UTC (8 hours ago)
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| bredren wrote:
| It is easy to take for granted an import and the life force that
| went into creating that code. That PIL and the pillow fork exist
| can seem to be a matter of course but they are gifts. Many thanks
| to Fredrik Lundh.
| chirau wrote:
| import re
|
| Rest in peace effbot
| syngrog66 wrote:
| I used and loved his ElementTree and PIL libraries many times,
| during the height of my Python days
|
| RIP Mr. Lundh
| actually_a_dog wrote:
| Black 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.
| indrora wrote:
| Effbot was a voice of clarity when I went to learn Python, long
| before 2 was ready to collect dust on the shelf.
|
| I picked up the Python Standard Library book used after reading
| some apress book on Python. The book was clear and a good guide
| to the language, honestly one of the reasons I began to push
| people to learn it.
|
| Later, I probably ran into him on irc.
|
| I've used PIL, and later Pillow, as well as ElementTree in
| personal and professional work. Without him, I suspect part of my
| professional life wouldn't have happened. Funny how that is.
|
| My thoughts go out to his family. I can't imagine what it's like
| to discover just how many lives he touched.
| agumonkey wrote:
| import regards
| ridaj wrote:
| I believe the correct package in this instance is `condolences`
| agumonkey wrote:
| it was to hint at his role in the 're' package
| 323 wrote:
| print("F")
| antod wrote:
| 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.
| junon wrote:
| A good deal of projects over the years have relied on 're' at
| their core. Thank you, Fredrik Lundh.
| samwillis wrote:
| And PIL (now Pillow), truly inspiring Open Source contributor!
| glofish wrote:
| and elementtree, one of the first "sane" XML parsing modules
| junon wrote:
| Oh I didn't know that either, yeah that too. Wow.
| chubot wrote:
| I'm very sad to hear this, but I'm glad it was shared, and it's
| great to see his work appreciated. His effbot site helped me a
| lot early in my career. I even visited last year because I hadn't
| seen it around in quite awhile. Best wishes to all who knew him.
| vram22 wrote:
| I 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.
| jiaminglimjm wrote:
| inaW lilaWhi wainaW ilayhi raji`uwna
| kowlo wrote:
| https://pasteboard.co/pxT0WYx5nvgg.png
|
| cannot translate!
|
| edit: thanks @ comments below, need to manually switch to
| Arabic
| 5e92cb50239222b wrote:
| Looks like a bug in their language detection.
|
| Switch to Arabic manually and it works fine.
|
| > We belong to God and to Him we shall return
| WanderPanda wrote:
| Google gives me: ,, We belong to God and to Him we shall
| return" when selecting Arabic. I'm just learning Arabic but
| I'm wondering why op wrote it including the pronunciation
| marks which is very uncommon in daily use. I can imagine that
| it is a quote from the Quran
| josh_fyi wrote:
| >including the pronunciation marks
|
| It was likely copied.
|
| > very uncommon in daily use. I can imagine that it is a
| quote from the Quran
|
| They are common in religious texts.
| abdulhaq wrote:
| Yes, 2:156 https://quran.com/2/156 it's said by muslims
| when something bad happens, especially when hearing news
| that someone has passed away
| JasonFruit wrote:
| If anyone is responsible for Python's success, after Guido, it's
| Fredrik Lundh. When I was learning Python, it was his libraries
| and his documentation I kept using and learning from. I feel this
| one more personally than others, even though I never interacted
| with him.
| paganel wrote:
| I used his Tkinter docs to write my first real Python program,
| in 2003. Two years later I was getting my first job as a Python
| programmer, that's still what I do for a living. RIP to
| Fredrik, his work changed life for the better for many of us.
| rodmena wrote:
| And Guido's message: https://lwn.net/Articles/878325/
| dangoor wrote:
| I've used a lot of Python in my career, and Effbot's work was a
| huge boost on much that I did. ElementTree was a boon when I was
| building an RSS reader, and PIL was a go to tool for image work.
|
| There has been a lot written recently about "open source being
| broken", and it's true that the financial model doesn't always
| work out. But someone like Fredrik who gave so much freely to the
| community was able to impact people far and wide in a positive
| way. RIP
| f311a wrote:
| Sad news. He also wrote a lot of articles:
| https://web.archive.org/web/20190222003219/http://effbot.org...
| nurblieh wrote:
| Fredrik 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.
| taylorhughes wrote:
| 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 :)
| raymondh wrote:
| The 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.
| bjourne wrote:
| :( Without all the packages, books and tutorials Fredrik Lundh
| wrote, Python would never have become such an amazing language as
| it is. Vila i frid.
| [deleted]
| fghorow wrote:
| AKA "the effbot", a long time contributor to Python.
| noufalibrahim wrote:
| The 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, to overestimate how many
| lives Mr. Lundh's work has touched and improved over the course
| of his career. RIP.
| vram22 wrote:
| >I think it's hard, if not impossible, to overestimate how many
| lives Mr. Lundh's work has touched and improved over the course
| of his career. RIP.
|
| Yes. The same applies about tons of other people who have put
| their work out on the net, for years, which all of us benefit
| from.
| aclark wrote:
| RIP Fredrik. Long live PIL/Pillow.
| vaxmeup wrote:
| Someone with an auto-immune disease is precisely the type of
| person that should _not_ be taking a vaccine.
|
| Vax mandates are basically death sentences for some people.
| toxik wrote:
| En legend har gatt ur tiden. Vila i frid.
| progre wrote:
| GNU Effbot
| vaxmeup wrote:
| So knowing he had an auto-immune disease - can anyone confirm he
| got the 'vaccine'?
|
| Lots of people "suddenly dying" lately.
| vaxmeup wrote:
| "Vaccines" cause death. This is facts and science.
|
| Vaxxers/maskers are pyschopathic.
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