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Thursday, December 08, 2005

17000 lines of code

It has been a while since I did a tally on the code size. The new statistics shows there are about 17000 lines of code in about 100 modules. That is for a non-trivial application with everything deliberately designed to be as simple as possible.

A closer look inside, among the them is 5000 lines of unit test code. It on track with the the rule of thumb of 1 to 1 ratio of production code to test code.

Two of the largest module has around 700 lines of code. The median is around 100 lines. This sounds minuscule to most other software code. But with Python, 700 lines can be a really sophisticated module. In many cases I would break a module down into smaller components before they even reach 700 lines.

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