[Python-Dev] Bugs discovered by researchers at Case Western Reserve University

[Brett Cannon]

On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 08:19, Boya Sun<bxs187 at case.edu> wrote:
> Dear Developers,
>
> I am a Ph.D student from Case Western Reserve University, specialized at
> software engineering.  Our recent approach analyzes bugs that are being
> fixed in the issue database, and tries to discover any latent bug instances
> that are the same as the fixed bug but are left unfixed.  We have found some
> spurious code in your project in this approach, and pointed out these code
> by comments (sometimes also with patches) to the fixed bugs in the issue DB
> from which it is discovered as follows:
>
> Issue 6817: http://bugs.python.org/issue6817 (A new issue, created following
> Amaury's comments)
> Issue 2620: http://bugs.python.org/issue2620
> Issue 3139: http://bugs.python.org/issue3139
> Issue 5705: http://bugs.python.org/issue5705

I quickly re-opened 2620 and 5705 so we don't lose track of the fact
that new code has been attached.

-Brett