Python3.0 has more duplication in source code than Python2.5

[Terry]

On 2月7日, 下午7时10分, "Diez B. Roggisch" <de... at nospam.web.de> wrote:
> Terry schrieb:
>
> > On 2月7日, 下午3时36分, "Martin v. Löwis" <mar... at v.loewis.de> wrote:
> >>> Does that say something about the code quality of Python3.0?
> >> Not necessarily. IIUC, copying a single file with 2000 lines
> >> completely could already account for that increase.
>
> >> It would be interesting to see what specific files have gained
> >> large numbers of additional files, compared to 2.5.
>
> >> Regards,
> >> Martin
>
> > But the duplication are always not very big, from about 100 lines
> > (rare) to less the 5 lines. As you can see the Rate30 is much bigger
> > than Rate60, that means there are a lot of small duplications.
>
> Do you by any chance have a few examples of these? There is a lot of
> idiomatic code in python to e.g. acquire and release the GIL or doing
> refcount-stuff. If that happens to be done with rather generic names as
> arguments, I can well imagine that as being the cause.
>
> Diez

And I'm not saying that you can not have duplication in code. But it
seems that the stable & successful software releases tend to have
relatively stable duplication rate.