Django vs Rails Code Size

I’ve been a long user of Ruby and frameworks like Rails, Merb, and Sinatra. I’ve been sort of following Django since it’s first public release but never got aground to building something with it. My Python skills is a bit rusty compared to my Ruby skills so I’ve decided to start a project with Django.
Django seems like a fairly large project including a built-in admin-interface, internationalization and localization features in addition to other standard functionality as in Rails (templating, dispatcher, ORM, request processor). At first hand it seemed like Django would be a bit bloated compared to Rails considering the additional features it provided. The results when using cloc is contradicting my initial assumptions.
First we have the as-of-writing latest version of Rails:
[diamond:~/dev/rails]% git log | head -n 7
commit a7ea06b4ebe252e258f83e7de945b4baa30ec3bc
Author: Jacek Becela
Date: Thu May 8 13:47:24 2008 +0200

Make render shorthands work with namespaced controllers

Signed-off-by: Pratik Naik

[diamond:~/dev/rails]% cloc --exclude-dir=.git .
1383 text files.
1354 unique files.
309 files ignored.

http://cloc.sourceforge.net v 1.03 T=8.0 s (143.8 files/s, 20227.0 lines/s)
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Language files blank comment code scale 3rd gen. equiv
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Ruby 1040 18758 24739 102037 x 4.20 = 428555.40
Javascript 17 1930 870 11770 x 1.48 = 17419.60
YAML 81 129 93 1017 x 0.90 = 915.30
HTML 6 41 3 322 x 1.90 = 611.80
CSS 4 9 3 45 x 1.00 = 45.00
SQL 1 6 0 43 x 2.29 = 98.47
Bourne Shell 1 0 0 1 x 3.81 = 3.81
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SUM: 1150 20873 25708 115235 x 3.88 = 447649.38
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Then the latest version of Django (from the Mercurial mirror):
[diamond:~/dev/django-trunk]% hg tip
changeset: 5420:3762db44f8cd
tag: tip
user: russellm
date: Sat May 10 13:19:19 2008 +0000
summary: Removed mark_safe from the saved request path on the admin login
form. This prevents a potential XSS attack. Formal announcement
will be forthcoming.

[diamond:~/dev/django-trunk]% cloc --exclude-dir=.hg .
813 text files.
808 unique files.
2119 files ignored.

http://cloc.sourceforge.net v 1.03 T=3.0 s (208.3 files/s, 26209.3 lines/s)
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Language files blank comment code scale 3rd gen. equiv
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Python 522 10295 4947 59394 x 4.20 = 249454.80
Javascript 13 106 258 1447 x 1.48 = 2141.56
HTML 72 274 6 1283 x 1.90 = 2437.70
CSS 11 60 59 354 x 1.00 = 354.00
make 1 11 4 53 x 2.50 = 132.50
XML 4 0 0 41 x 1.90 = 77.90
Bourne Shell 1 4 7 17 x 3.81 = 64.77
SQL 1 1 0 7 x 2.29 = 16.03
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SUM: 625 10751 5281 62596 x 4.07 = 254679.26
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Counting only code lines Django is 54% the size of Rails. Due note that this is highly unscientific. Rails provides features that Django don’t (ActiveResource for instance).