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Pythius Readme

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

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$Id: README,v 1.3 2002/03/02 07:03:57 ftobin Exp $

With respect to pythius.aop:

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA or see http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/lesser.html

Pythius is a set of tools to assess the quality of Python code. This is commonly done by applying different code metrics. Simple code metrics are the ratio between comments and code lines, module and function size, etc. The immediate goal of the project is to start implementing the simple metrics, and discover more complex code metrics or adapt them from other languages.

The project's name has two origins:

In Greek mythology, Python was a serpent that dwelt in the caves of Mount Parnassus and was slain by Apollo. After that, Apollo bore the epithet of Pythius. The aim of this project is to contribute to the death of bad Python code, by recognizing said code.
The second origin is the Greek architect Pythius, who was said to have built The Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, one of The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, about 353 B.C. He also built the Temple of Athena Polias in the ancient city Priene. The temple was recognized in ancient times as the classic example of the pure Ionic style. Similarly, we want to enable developers to build pure Pythonic code that resembles the beautiful style of Greek architecture.

The project's homepage can be found at http://pythius.sourceforge.net/.

See INSTALL for installation instructions. See CHANGES for a version history.

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