Popular Python projects with lots of pure Python code

[Robert Brewer]

Brett C. wrote:
> For my thesis (once the bloody thing stops throwing bugs at me) I am 
> going to need to collect stats on the frequency that atomic types in 
> local variables are applied to various opcodes and methods.  
> That means that I need something to collect stats off of.
> 
> So I am trying to come up with a list of projects I can use to get my 
> stats from.  the stdlib is a no-brainer.  Also plan to use Docutils. 
> But beyond those most of the big Python projects I can think 
> of have a 
> ton of C code which is of no use to me.  I don't need to be 
> able to run 
> it, just going to be compiling to .py files.
> 
> Any suggestions?

If you need just stats (without drilling down into code to interpret
those stats), you might package up your stat-generation code and hand it
out on c.l.p. That way, I and many others could run it against our
proprietary code and just give you results without exposing source code.
Might be a way to get a broader range of results--most of the "big
projects" in the wild are frameworks, not apps.


Robert Brewer
MIS
Amor Ministries
fumanchu at amor.org