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18th October 2021 - Link Blog

Where does all the effort go? Looking at Python core developer activity (via) Łukasz Langa used Datasette to explore 28,780 pull requests made to the CPython GitHub repository, using some custom Python scripts (and sqlite-utils) to load in the data.

Posted 18th October 2021 at 8:21 pm

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