While working on a patch and navigating through CPython, I got curious as to how the codebase has grown over the years. Using an interesting tool I found on the internet to count lines of code (cloc ), some scripts, and some patience (thank goodness for multiple cores, or I’d be at this all day), I amassed a 1,392 commit dataset. With that, and some Git spelunking for the annotations, I was able to generate the above graph.
Many thanks to Tim, Ned, and Hugo for their help with this little project! I plan to tidy my scripts and upload them to a repository sometime in the near future. Please feel free to use my dataset :-)