Popular Python projects with lots of pure Python code

[Troels Therkelsen]

In article <mailman.1418.1092088893.5135.python-list at python.org>, 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?

What about MoinMoin and Mailman?  Those are fairly large-ish pure-python
projects.

If 100% pure python isn't a must, PIL might also be able to yield useful stats
as all of the abstraction is done in python.

Hope this helps,

Troels Therkelsen