Guido van Rossum, as well as being the creator of the Python language, is the

original creator of IDLE. Other contributors prior to Version 0.8 include

Mark Hammond, Jeremy Hylton, Tim Peters, and Moshe Zadka.
IDLE's recent development has been carried out in the IDLEfork project.
The objective was to develop a version of IDLE which had an execution
environment which could be initialized prior to each run of user code.
The IDLEfork project was initiated by David Scherer, with some help from Peter
Schneider-Kamp and Nicholas Riley. David wrote the first version of the RPC
code and designed a fast turn-around environment for VPython. Guido developed
the RPC code and Remote Debugger currently integrated in IDLE. Bruce Sherwood
contributed considerable time testing and suggesting improvements.
Besides David and Guido, the main developers who have been active on IDLEfork
are Stephen M. Gava, who implemented the configuration GUI, the new
configuration system, and the About dialog, and Kurt B. Kaiser, who completed
the integration of the RPC and remote debugger, implemented the threaded
subprocess, and made a number of usability enhancements.
Other contributors include Raymond Hettinger, Tony Lownds (Mac integration),
Neal Norwitz (code check and clean-up), Ronald Oussoren (Mac integration),
Noam Raphael (Code Context, Call Tips, many other patches), and Chui Tey (RPC
integration, debugger integration and persistent breakpoints).
Scott David Daniels, Tal Einat, Hernan Foffani, Christos Georgiou,
Jim Jewett, Martin v. Löwis, Jason Orendorff, Josh Robb, Nigel Rowe,
Bruce Sherwood, and Jeff Shute have submitted useful patches. Thanks, guys!
For additional details refer to NEWS.txt and Changelog.
Please contact the IDLE maintainer (kbk@shore.net) to have yourself included
here if you are one of those we missed!