[python-committers] Statistics: growth of core dev number vs growth of the code size/complexity

[Nick Coghlan]

On 7 December 2017 at 10:19, Steven D'Aprano <steve at pearwood.info> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 07, 2017 at 12:17:04AM +0100, Victor Stinner wrote:
>
>> If you look at the size of the source code, it's still growing
>> constanly since 1990:
>> https://www.openhub.net/p/python/
>>
>> 2007: around 783k lines
>> 2010: around 683k lines
>
> What happened between 2007 and 2010 that the source shrank by nearly
> 13%?

My guess would be that it's a consequence of Python 3 becoming the
default branch.

Cheers,
Nick.

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