Hello. I'v written a small script that prints the number of lines of code of a python program to stdout (by module, function, class and method), the sources are available online here https://www.assembla.com/code/tahar/subversion/nodes. The readme has an example usage as well as a trace of what the script prints.
The problem is that I'm using the inspect module, because it provides a nice function inspect.getsourcelines that takes a python object and return its number of lines of code. BUT, it works on live objects, that means one has to first import the module he wants to process, and this can have side effects (example : GUI programs). So my question is how can one count the number of lines of code of a python program without importing it (static code analysis) ? Some people on IRC advised me to look for the AST module. Can you give me a little help on how to use this module to count the number of lines of code of a function/method ? Thanks in advance for your help. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
