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I'm confused about the assertion that Flask is only 800 lines of code. Counting Flask v0.8 with cloc yields twice that: $ perl cloc-1.56.pl flask --exclude-

I'm confused about the assertion that Flask is only 800 lines of code. Counting Flask v0.8 with cloc yields twice that: $ perl cloc-1.56.pl flask --exclude-dir=testsuite,ext 18 text files. 18 unique files. 114 files ignored. http://cloc.sourceforge.net v 1.56 T=0.5 s (36.0 files/s, 8008.0 lines/s) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Language files blank comment code ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Python 18 694 1748 1562 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SUM: 18 694 1748 1562 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- And that doesn't include the size of Werkzeug, without which Flask cannot run: $ perl cloc-1.56.pl werkzeug --exclude-dir=testsuite,ext,debug,contrib 20 text files. 20 unique files. 126 files ignored. http://cloc.sourceforge.net v 1.56 T=1.0 s (20.0 files/s, 13460.0 lines/s) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Language files blank comment code ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Python 20 2307 4277 6876 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SUM: 20 2307 4277 6876 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Including the contrib and debug packages of Werkzeug adds another 3000 LOC.

the_mitsuhiko 14y ago
I haven't done the numbers in a while but from the given ratio I would assume your line checker tool treats docstrings as code. The red part there is for the most part just documentation, not code: https://github.com/mitsuhiko/flask/blob/master/flask/app.py https://github.com/mitsuhiko/flask/blob/master/flask/app.py (as an example)
- brown9-2 14y ago
  I think you're right, it is counting docstrings as code.
njharman 14y ago
> I'm confused about the assertion that Flask is only 800 lines of code. It's called "spin". It's common practice for people trying to sell you on something.

the_mitsuhiko 14y ago

I haven't done the numbers in a while but from the given ratio I would assume your line checker tool treats docstrings as code. The red part there is for the most part just documentation, not code: https://github.com/mitsuhiko/flask/blob/master/flask/app.py https://github.com/mitsuhiko/flask/blob/master/flask/app.py (as an example)

brown9-2 14y ago
I think you're right, it is counting docstrings as code.

njharman 14y ago

> I'm confused about the assertion that Flask is only 800 lines of code. It's called "spin". It's common practice for people trying to sell you on something.