On Mon Nov 17 2014 at 12:06:15 PM Stefan Bucur <stefan.bu...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Mark, thank you for the pointer! I will re-send my message there. Should I > include both mailing lists in a single thread if I end up receiving replies > from both? No as cross-posting becomes just a nightmare of moderation when someone is not on both lists; please only post to a single mailing list. -Brett > > Cheers, > Stefan > > > On Mon Nov 17 2014 at 4:04:45 PM Mark Shannon <m...@hotpy.org> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I think this might be a bit off-topic for this mailing list, >> code-qual...@python.org is the place for discussing static analysis >> tools. >> >> Although if anyone does have any comments on any particular checks >> they would like, I would be interested as well. >> >> Cheers, >> Mark. >> >> >> On 17/11/14 14:49, Stefan Bucur wrote: >> > I'm developing a Python static analysis tool that flags common >> > programming errors in Python programs. The tool is meant to complement >> > other tools like Pylint (which perform checks at lexical and syntactic >> > level) by going deeper with the code analysis and keeping track of the >> > possible control flow paths in the program (path-sensitive analysis). >> > >> > For instance, a path-sensitive analysis detects that the following >> > snippet of code would raise an AttributeError exception: >> > >> > if object is None: # If the True branch is taken, we know the object is >> None >> > object.doSomething() # ... so this statement would always fail >> > >> > I'm writing first to the Python developers themselves to ask, in their >> > experience, what common pitfalls in the language & its standard library >> > such a static checker should look for. For instance, here [1] is a list >> > of static checks for the C++ language, as part of the Clang static >> > analyzer project. >> > >> > My preliminary list of Python checks is quite rudimentary, but maybe >> > could serve as a discussion starter: >> > >> > * Proper Unicode handling (for 2.x) >> > - encode() is not called on str object >> > - decode() is not called on unicode object >> > * Check for integer division by zero >> > * Check for None object dereferences >> > >> > Thanks a lot, >> > Stefan Bucur >> > >> > [1] http://clang-analyzer.llvm.org/available_checks.html >> > >> > >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Python-Dev mailing list >> > Python-Dev@python.org >> > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev >> > Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/ >> mark%40hotpy.org >> > >> > _______________________________________________ > Python-Dev mailing list > Python-Dev@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev > Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/ > brett%40python.org >
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