Medium to Large Scale Python Deployments

Peter Hansen peter at engcorp.com
Fri Jun 7 08:07:37 EDT 2002


Jürgen Hermann wrote:
> 
> Peter Hansen wrote:
> > How big is that when run through pycount?
> >
> > (I.e. comments and blank lines don't count!)
> 
> Summary on "twisted"
> ====================
> files                  256
> lines                51654
> bytes              1728211
> comments              5993
> empty lines          10029
> non-commentary lines 29910

Thanks!  Similar results to what I've seen over about 50000 
lines in 235 files.  Roughly 50-60% code content, and 
almost twenty percent blank lines.

I suspect such numbers (perhaps excluding lines of comments)
are more consistent for Python code, whoever wrote it,
than for many other languages.

-Peter



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