pygount is a command line tool for counting source lines of code in software projects.
It uses Pygments to lex source files rather than relying on simple marker matching, which helps it classify code, comments, empty lines, and pure string lines across a broad range of languages.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Scans local folders and can analyze remote Git repositories directly without a separate clone step.
- Generates per-file results and language summaries with counts and percentages.
- Supports JSON output for further processing and cloc-xml output for CI tools.
- Includes options to limit analysis by file suffix and to skip selected folders.
- Provides a Python API for integrating source code counting into other applications.
Website: github.com/roskakori/pygount
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Developer: Thomas Aglassinger
License: BSD 3-Clause License
Related Software
| Alternatives to cloc | |
|---|---|
| Tokei | Displays statistics about your code |
| scc | Fast accurate code counter with complexity calculations and COCOMO estimates |
| SLOCCount | Set of tools for counting physical Source Lines of Code |
| gocloc | A compact fast cloc tool seeking inspiration from Tokei |
| loccount | Re-implementation of David A. Wheeler’s sloccount tool in Go |
| loc | Rust implementation of cloc, but it’s more than 100x faster |
| tcount | Count your code by tokens and patterns in the syntax tree |
| sloc | Simple tool to count source lines of code written in CoffeeScript |
| polyglot | Command-line tool that determines project contents |
| enry | Programming language detector based on go-enry |
| Linguist | Assess a repository’s languages stats with github-linguist executable |
| CLOCTUI | TUI for CLOC |
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