returns the most common padding/margin values

readme.md

assuming you got a list of margin/padding values from your css with

ack --css margin > margin.txt
ack --css padding > padding.txt

you can run

python scan.py

and get a list of the most popular padding and margin values

scan.py

import os
import sys

import re
from collections import defaultdict, Counter


val_re = re.compile('(\d+(?:px|em|%)?|auto)')

def count_vals(filename):
  with open(filename) as f:
    db = defaultdict(int)
    for line in f:
      valstring = line.split(':')[-1].strip()
      vals = re.findall(val_re, valstring)

      for val in vals:
        db[val] += 1

  return Counter(db)


def main():
  filenames = ['padding.txt', 'margin.txt']

  for filename in filenames:
    count = count_vals(filename)
    print filename
    print count.most_common(15)

if __name__ == '__main__':
  main()