vlt
April 19, 2026, 10:00pm
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Hello.
[30 years of CPython in 10 minutes]
I made this and thought others here might find it cool, it’s a visualization of CPython’s commit history throughout the years made using gource . Avatars are pulled best effort based on names and emails using Github, falling back to gravatar.
You can visually see a lot of the big changes and how contributions to Python by various authors have changed over time. Some events that I could pick out really easily:
0:37 - (1992) First non-Guido contr…
there seems to be an embedded video but in at least the two browsers I checked (Firefox on Debian 13, Chrome on Android) it was not visible.
I do not see a link to YouTube in any of the posts, what did I miss?
MegaIng
April 19, 2026, 10:42pm
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Yeah, it’s broken broken. If you go to the raw view, you can see that the link should be at the top of the first post: https://discuss.python.org/raw/2669
vlt
April 20, 2026, 6:15am
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It seems to work in both browsers now, thanks!