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CPython: 36 Years of Source Code

by Stan Ulbrych on 09-03-2026 14:42 (via)

Stan Ulbrych produced this neat SVG showing the growth of the CPython repo over the past 36 years:

Annotated chart with growth of the CPython repo over the past 36 years

It is interesting to see some of the tags added, for example the 2nd and 3rd notes that mark a big bump and a big decrease in the code size when the Unicode character database is added to CPython and then compressed, respectively.

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