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This Is The Oldest Python Project On GitHub
Welcome back! Recently, i’ve been going through a ton of different projects on Github, it’s so interesting to see what other people have been able to build out with Python, and I figured it would be interesting to check out the first Python project hosted on Github. Now, this project is the first Python project that’s public, there may have been projects before this, but those aren’t available for the public to see. The specific project we’ll be talking about is the pyelection project created in 2008! If you want to jump straight to this project, check out the link below:
This specific project revolved around the 2008 US presidential primaries, specifically keeping up to date on news within that election. This project was broken down into a few different files:
We had a readme file, a models.py file, a pyelection.glade file, a pyelection.py file and a states.py file. There were a few different packages that were…