Medium to Large Scale Python Deployments

[Geoff Gerrietts]

Quoting Sam Penrose (spenrose at intersight.com):
> [Domenic R. Merenda raises the topic of Python used in large contexts]
> 
> I'm also curious about large amounts of Python, period. Who knows of 
> ~50K Python lines-of-code (LOC) systems? 100K LOC? More?

I'm working on a large web project whose name I hafta jump thru
permission hoops to reveal (though a little perfunctory Googling
old newsgroup posts would probably give you the answers if you care).

I don't have a nice summary version printing out of the version of
pycount I found on starship, so mine may not be as good as others, but
I show:

lines:    173810
code:     127443
doc:        1387
comment:   17873
blank:     27107

I would put the number of python enthusiasts working on this code
somewhere around 50%; others appreciated its merits but were largely
indifferent to concerns of language, and still others were inductees
in the cult of Java.

Some of the code indexed above is autogenerated, for use with
ILU-based services. Some is boilerplate, for similar reasons. But most
has been seen by human eyes and shaped by human minds.

--G.

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Geoff Gerrietts             "Punctuality is the virtue of the bored." 
<geoff at gerrietts net>                               --Evelyn Waugh