codebase-inspection

Run pygount with --format=summary from the repository root to get a per-language table of files, code lines, and comment lines. Always pass --folders-to-skip to exclude .git, node_modules, and virtualenv directories.

Use the --suffix flag to filter by file extension, for example pygount --suffix=py --format=summary. You can list multiple suffixes such as py,yaml,yml to count several file types at once.

Pygount crawls every directory by default, including .git, node_modules, and virtualenvs, which can contain hundreds of thousands of files. Add --folders-to-skip with the appropriate exclusion list for your project type to fix this.

Pygount classifies all Markdown content as comments rather than code, so Markdown files show zero code lines. This is expected behavior, not a bug in the count.

Yes, pygount supports --format=json for programmatic consumption in addition to the default summary table. For accurate raw line counts of JSON files themselves, use wc -l directly since pygount counts JSON conservatively.