PollyReports vs. Geraldo Reports — A Correction

Some time back I made a post about the development of PollyReports, and I gave code line counts based on Robin Parmar’s lines-of-code counter which ascribed a truly huge number of lines to Geraldo.  While I knew it was more complex than PollyReports, I began to feel that there had to be some mistake… it just couldn’t be THAT big.

So I took Robin’s program apart and rewrote it, keeping his (or is it her?) line counting mechanism intact but altering the traversal scheme so that only *.py files would be counted, and so that they would be listed in a fashion similar to the Unix/Linux du command.  Using the current 1.5.1 version of PollyReports, the module itself weighs in at 262 actual code lines, 388 total lines (including comments and doc strings).  Using the version of Geraldo that I have downloaded, the total count for source files (excepting the effectively empty tests folder) is 1,785 actual lines of code, 4885 total lines including comments and doc strings.  I’m pretty sure that the code I abstracted from Robin’s script is not good in all cases; the docstring detector will not detect all docstrings, and may be confused by some literal string assignments (basically if you put three double quotes on a line by themselves, you’ll confuse it).  However, these counts do seem more reasonable.

Geraldo is almost 7 times the size of PollyReports, still pretty big, but not over 340 times as I originally reported it.  I think Robin’s code may have been tallying the documentation files as well as the actual Python code.

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