counting lines of code

[Ben Finney]

Michele Simionato <michele.simionato at gmail.com> writes:

> I need a small utility to count the lines of Python code in a
> directory, traversing subdirectories and ignoring comments and
> docstrings. I am sure there is already something doing that, what do
> you suggest?

Any of the static code checkers (‘pylint’, ‘pyflakes’, etc.) would
already be doing this.

You would at least be able to crib from them, maybe import the
functionality; ideally they can directly report what you want to see.

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Ben Finney