Drop historical :author:s from HOWTOs (#151091)

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 Annotations Best Practices
 **************************

-:author: Larry Hastings
-
 .. topic:: Abstract

  This document is designed to encapsulate the best practices
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 Argparse Tutorial
 *****************

-:author: Tshepang Mbambo
-
 .. currentmodule:: argparse

 This tutorial is intended to be a gentle introduction to :mod:`argparse`, the
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 .. currentmodule:: curses

-:Author: A.M. Kuchling, Eric S. Raymond
-:Release: 2.04
-

 .. topic:: Abstract

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 Descriptor Guide
 ================

-:Author: Raymond Hettinger
-:Contact: <python at rcn dot com>
-
 .. Contents::


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  Functional Programming HOWTO
 ********************************

-:Author: \A. M. Kuchling
-:Release: 0.32
-
 In this document, we'll take a tour of Python's features suitable for
 implementing programs in a functional style.  After an introduction to the
 concepts of functional programming, we'll look at language features such as
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 Revision History and Acknowledgements
 =====================================

-The author would like to thank the following people for offering suggestions,
+This HOWTO was originally written by A. M. Kuchling. The author would like to
+thank the following people for offering suggestions,
 corrections and assistance with various drafts of this article: Ian Bicking,
 Nick Coghlan, Nick Efford, Raymond Hettinger, Jim Jewett, Mike Krell, Leandro
 Lameiro, Jussi Salmela, Collin Winter, Blake Winton.
@@ -1239,9 +1237,9 @@ Text Processing".

 Mertz also wrote a 3-part series of articles on functional programming
 for IBM's DeveloperWorks site; see
-`part 1 <https://developer.ibm.com/articles/l-prog/>`__,
-`part 2 <https://developer.ibm.com/tutorials/l-prog2/>`__, and
-`part 3 <https://developer.ibm.com/tutorials/l-prog3/>`__,
+`part 1 <https://web.archive.org/web/20211006103639/https://developer.ibm.com/articles/l-prog/>`__,
+`part 2 <https://web.archive.org/web/20211205224606/https://developer.ibm.com/tutorials/l-prog2/>`__, and
+`part 3 <https://web.archive.org/web/20211127083846/https://developer.ibm.com/tutorials/l-prog3/>`__.


 Python documentation
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 Instrumenting CPython with DTrace and SystemTap
 ===============================================

-:author: David Malcolm
-:author: Łukasz Langa
-
 DTrace and SystemTap are monitoring tools, each providing a way to inspect
 what the processes on a computer system are doing.  They both use
 domain-specific languages allowing a user to write scripts which:
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 An introduction to the ipaddress module
 ***************************************

-:author: Peter Moody
-:author: Nick Coghlan
-
 .. topic:: Overview

   This document aims to provide a gentle introduction to the
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 Logging Cookbook
 ================

-:Author: Vinay Sajip <vinay_sajip at red-dove dot com>
-
 This page contains a number of recipes related to logging, which have been found
 useful in the past. For links to tutorial and reference information, please see
 :ref:`cookbook-ref-links`.
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 Logging HOWTO
 =============

-:Author: Vinay Sajip <vinay_sajip at red-dove dot com>
-
 .. _logging-basic-tutorial:

 .. currentmodule:: logging
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 Python support for the ``perf map`` compatible profilers
 ========================================================

-:author: Pablo Galindo
-
 `The Linux perf profiler <https://perf.wiki.kernel.org>`_ and
 `samply <https://github.com/mstange/samply>`_ are powerful tools that allow you to
 profile and obtain information about the performance of your application.
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 How to port Python 2 Code to Python 3
 *************************************

-:author: Brett Cannon
-
 Python 2 reached its official end-of-life at the start of 2020. This means
 that no new bug reports, fixes, or changes will be made to Python 2 - it's
 no longer supported: see :pep:`373` and
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  Regular expression HOWTO
 ****************************

-:Author: A.M. Kuchling <amk@amk.ca>
-
 .. TODO:
   Document lookbehind assertions
   Better way of displaying a RE, a string, and what it matches
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  Socket Programming HOWTO
 ****************************

-:Author: Gordon McMillan
-
-
 .. topic:: Abstract

   Sockets are used nearly everywhere, but are one of the most severely
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 Sorting Techniques
 ******************

-:Author: Andrew Dalke and Raymond Hettinger
-
-
 Python lists have a built-in :meth:`list.sort` method that modifies the list
 in-place.  There is also a :func:`sorted` built-in function that builds a new
 sorted list from an iterable.
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  Unicode HOWTO
 *****************

-:Release: 1.12
-
 This HOWTO discusses Python's support for the Unicode specification
 for representing textual data, and explains various problems that
 people commonly encounter when trying to work with Unicode.
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  HOWTO Fetch Internet Resources Using The urllib Package
 ***********************************************************

-:Author: `Michael Foord <https://agileabstractions.com/>`_
-
-
 Introduction
 ============