python is growing bigger and bigger!

[Fredrik Lundh]

Michael Hudson wrote:
>
> > i'd like to use python as a toolkit. but from version 1.52 to 2.22, it
> > has become much bigger.
>
> In what way?  The binaries are bigger, the library is bigger?

you're part of the python-dev team, so you should know the
answer to that: yes and yes.

binaries, on windows:

    python 1.5.2: 557568 bytes DLL
    python 2.2: 886272 bytes DLL + about 291328 bytes in PYD files

library files (subset; just the PY files in Lib):

    python 1.5.2: 1099790 bytes
    python 2.2: 2013794 bytes

pythonware installers (python, tkinter, pil, etc):

    py14-19980126.exe: 1378780 bytes
    py15-19990326.exe: 1502419 bytes
    py152-20000606.exe: 1633504 bytes
    py20-20010402.exe: 2164042 bytes
    py21-20010906.exe: 2781359 bytes
    py22-20020318.exe: 2571065 bytes

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