History

For changelog, please see Changes.

SmartyPants

Perl SmartyPants or original SmartyPants.

In 2002, John Gruber started the SmartyPants for Movable Type, written in Perl.

Rael Dornfest ported SmartyPants to Blosxom. Portions of the SmartyPants are based on Brad Choate’s nifty MTRegex plug-in. Jeremy Hedley and Charles Wiltgen deserve mention for exemplary beta testing of SmartyPants.

smartypants.py

smartypants.py, Python [port of] SmartyPants.

In 2004, Chad Miller ported it to Python to use with Pyblosxom.

Brad Choate also contributed a few bits of source code to the Python port. Brad Choate is a fine hacker indeed. It was later packaged for PyPI by Hao Lian.

smartypants

smartypants, Python [fork of] SmartyPants.

In August 2013, smartypants became managed by Yu-Jie Lin after they contacted Chad Miller and Hao Lian. Lin took over the project manager role and the package ownership on PyPI. Leo Hemsted managed the project in 2017.

Since 2025, smartypants has been managed by Justin Mayer.