TheAlgorithms/Python

Maintenance

Active

Human commits, 30 days

241

Human commits, 90 days

530

Human commits, 365 days

588

Bot share of commits, 365 days

6%

Last commit

Oct 14, 2026 (1 day ago)

Last human commit

Oct 14, 2026 (1 day ago)

Authors, 90 days

315

Last release

none found

Median PR merge time

9 hours

Responsiveness: of 21 recent issues, 90% got a maintainer reply. Median first response: 32 days.

• Commit counts are estimated: the commit sample stops before the window start, so GitHub's totals were scaled by the sampled bot share.
• Authors in the last 90 days are counted from the sampled commits only.

Sources: Commits, Releases, Merged pull requests, Issues

People

Owner

Organization

Commits sampled

470 since Oct 14, 2025

Authors for half of commits

80

Authors for 80% of commits

221

Contributors

452

Top committers

• priya-sundaram-dev: 7% of commits
• cclauss: 4% of commits
• Hardvan: 4% of commits
• Miladkhoshdel: 2% of commits
• mindaugl: 2% of commits

• Shares come from the newest sampled commits, since the commit sample is capped.

Sources: Commits, Contributors

Stars

Mostly organic, confidence high

Bursts

• Sep 10, 2018 to Oct 14, 2018: about 6.4k more stars than usual, peak 669 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Feb 20, 2019 to Feb 22, 2019: about 240 more stars than usual, peak 142 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Apr 11, 2019 to Apr 13, 2019: about 291 more stars than usual, peak 204 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Apr 25, 2019 to Jun 5, 2019: about 15.5k more stars than usual, peak 2.1k in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Jul 1, 2019 to Jul 5, 2019: about 619 more stars than usual, peak 363 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Sep 16, 2019 to Sep 27, 2019: about 1.9k more stars than usual, peak 423 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Nov 21, 2019 to Nov 28, 2019: about 799 more stars than usual, peak 307 in one day, a spike that tapers off. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
• Dec 9, 2019 to Dec 12, 2019: about 436 more stars than usual, peak 287 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Mar 19, 2020 to Mar 22, 2020: about 195 more stars than usual, peak 109 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• May 12, 2020 to May 29, 2020: about 2.7k more stars than usual, peak 495 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Jul 5, 2020 to Jul 8, 2020: about 702 more stars than usual, peak 354 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Aug 3, 2020 to Aug 7, 2020: about 694 more stars than usual, peak 239 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Aug 29, 2020 to Sep 3, 2020: about 920 more stars than usual, peak 269 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Sep 13, 2020 to Sep 17, 2020: about 816 more stars than usual, peak 393 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Oct 4, 2020 to Oct 9, 2020: about 1.9k more stars than usual, peak 732 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Oct 18, 2020 to Oct 21, 2020: about 524 more stars than usual, peak 241 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Nov 11, 2020 to Nov 11, 2020: about 116 more stars than usual, peak 174 in one day, a spike that tapers off. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
• Nov 20, 2020 to Nov 26, 2020: about 1.4k more stars than usual, peak 341 in one day, a flat block of stars. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
• Dec 25, 2020 to Dec 30, 2020: about 1k more stars than usual, peak 251 in one day, a shape we can't classify. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
• Jan 4, 2021 to Jan 4, 2021: about 118 more stars than usual, peak 164 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Feb 1, 2021 to Feb 8, 2021: about 1.3k more stars than usual, peak 265 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Apr 24, 2021 to May 14, 2021: about 3.1k more stars than usual, peak 691 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• May 18, 2021 to May 21, 2021: about 497 more stars than usual, peak 297 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Jun 6, 2021 to Jun 7, 2021: about 386 more stars than usual, peak 283 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Jul 17, 2021 to Jul 21, 2021: about 945 more stars than usual, peak 329 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Aug 22, 2021 to Aug 27, 2021: about 968 more stars than usual, peak 297 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Sep 5, 2021 to Sep 11, 2021: about 1.4k more stars than usual, peak 345 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Oct 4, 2021 to Oct 7, 2021: about 500 more stars than usual, peak 312 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Oct 21, 2021 to Oct 26, 2021: about 643 more stars than usual, peak 260 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Nov 8, 2021 to Nov 9, 2021: about 439 more stars than usual, peak 378 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Nov 30, 2021 to Dec 2, 2021: about 322 more stars than usual, peak 234 in one day, a spike that tapers off. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
• Jan 7, 2022 to Jan 13, 2022: about 749 more stars than usual, peak 230 in one day, a shape we can't classify. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
• Jan 27, 2022 to Jan 30, 2022: about 316 more stars than usual, peak 172 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Feb 27, 2022 to Mar 10, 2022: about 1.4k more stars than usual, peak 284 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Jun 13, 2022 to Jun 21, 2022: about 1.6k more stars than usual, peak 634 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Aug 10, 2022 to Aug 15, 2022: about 647 more stars than usual, peak 204 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Sep 10, 2022 to Sep 15, 2022: about 786 more stars than usual, peak 262 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Sep 19, 2022 to Sep 24, 2022: about 751 more stars than usual, peak 258 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Oct 3, 2022 to Oct 5, 2022: about 253 more stars than usual, peak 156 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Nov 14, 2022 to Nov 19, 2022: about 544 more stars than usual, peak 176 in one day, a shape we can't classify. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
• Feb 6, 2023 to Feb 10, 2023: about 642 more stars than usual, peak 218 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Feb 25, 2023 to Mar 3, 2023: about 590 more stars than usual, peak 193 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Mar 14, 2023 to Mar 15, 2023: about 132 more stars than usual, peak 169 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Apr 9, 2023 to Apr 10, 2023: about 243 more stars than usual, peak 220 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Jul 31, 2023 to Aug 17, 2023: about 2.6k more stars than usual, peak 325 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Aug 28, 2023 to Sep 1, 2023: about 1.7k more stars than usual, peak 885 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Mar 18, 2024 to Mar 19, 2024: about 76 more stars than usual, peak 90 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Apr 12, 2024 to Apr 18, 2024: about 1.2k more stars than usual, peak 297 in one day, a shape we can't classify. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
• Aug 6, 2024 to Aug 8, 2024: about 132 more stars than usual, peak 117 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Oct 2, 2024 to Oct 25, 2024: about 7.7k more stars than usual, peak 1.6k in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Dec 5, 2024 to Dec 8, 2024: about 336 more stars than usual, peak 173 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Mar 9, 2025 to Mar 10, 2025: about 144 more stars than usual, peak 152 in one day, a spike that tapers off. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
• Jun 23, 2025 to Jun 28, 2025: about 383 more stars than usual, peak 165 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Aug 5, 2025 to Aug 5, 2025: about 111 more stars than usual, peak 150 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Aug 27, 2025 to Sep 5, 2025: about 1.9k more stars than usual, peak 539 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Sep 16, 2025 to Sep 21, 2025: about 656 more stars than usual, peak 265 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Sep 24, 2025 to Sep 27, 2025: about 1.1k more stars than usual, peak 655 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Dec 27, 2025 to Dec 30, 2025: about 793 more stars than usual, peak 319 in one day, a spike that tapers off. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
• Feb 25, 2026 to Feb 26, 2026: about 94 more stars than usual, peak 98 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.

• 19 stars GitHub has since removed (tracked since Oct 13, 2026).

Anyone can buy stars for any repo; bursts alone don't prove the owner did.

• Some star bursts have no matching forks, issues, releases, or launch coverage.
• Anyone can buy stars for any repo, so this describes the star history only.

Sources: How star history is analyzed

Risk

Flags

No risk flags.

License

Now

MIT (OSI-approved)

A year ago

MIT (OSI-approved)

Packages

No published packages found.

OpenSSF Scorecard: 5.2 out of 10 (via deps.dev).

Sources: GitHub: TheAlgorithms/Python