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A simple command-line tool to count lines in files by extension.

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📦 extliner

extliner is a lightweight Python package that recursively counts lines in files — distinguishing between total lines and non-empty lines — grouped by file extension. It's perfect for analyzing codebases, writing statistics, or cleaning up documentation-heavy directories.


🚀 Features

  • 📂 Recursive directory scanning
  • 🧮 Counts:
    • Total lines (with whitespace)
    • Non-empty lines (ignores blank lines)
  • 🔠 Groups results by file extension (.py, .js, NO_EXT, etc.)
  • 🚫 Support for ignoring specific extensions or folders
  • 📊 Output formats:
    • Pretty CLI table
    • JSON / CSV / Markdown exports
  • 🧩 Clean, extensible class-based design
  • 🧪 Fully tested with unittest
  • 🔧 CLI and Python API support

📥 Installation

Install via pip:

pip install extliner

Or install locally for development:

git clone https://github.com/extliner/extliner.git
cd extliner
pip install -e .

⚙️ CLI Usage

✅ Basic

extliner -d <directory_path>

🔍 Ignoring Extensions

extliner -d ./myproject --ignore .md .log

Ignoring Folders

extliner -d ./myproject --folders .venv __pycache__

🧾 Output Example

+-------------+---------------+------------------+---------+--------------+
| Extension   |   With Spaces |   Without Spaces |   Files | % of Total   |
+=============+===============+==================+=========+==============+
| .py         |           443 |              362 |       7 | 32.15%       |
+-------------+---------------+------------------+---------+--------------+
| no_ext      |           361 |              287 |       8 | 26.20%       |
+-------------+---------------+------------------+---------+--------------+
| .pyc        |           151 |              125 |       3 | 10.96%       |
+-------------+---------------+------------------+---------+--------------+

🧱 Python API

✅ Count Lines Programmatically

from extliner.main import LineCounter
from pathlib import Path

counter = LineCounter(ignore_extensions=[".log", ".json"])
result = counter.count_lines(Path("./your_directory"))

# Output as JSON
print(counter.to_json(result))

# Output as Markdown
print(counter.to_markdown(result))

# Output as CSV
print(counter.to_csv(result))

🛠️ Configuration Options

Flag Description Example Optioal/Required
-d Directory to scan -d ./src Required
--ignore File extensions to ignore --ignore .log .md .json Optional
--folders Folder names to ignore --folders .venv __pycache__ Optional

📂 Supported Formats

Output Method Description
to_json(data) Returns JSON string
to_csv(data) Returns CSV string
to_markdown(data) Returns Markdown table

✅ Testing

To run tests:

python -m unittest discover tests

Or using pytest (if installed):

pytest

📄 License

This project is licensed under the MIT License.


👨‍💻 Author

Made with ❤️ by Deepak Raj

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