[Python-Dev] Coverity Scan Spotlight Python

Terry Reedy tjreedy at udel.edu
Fri Aug 30 22:16:53 CEST 2013


On 8/30/2013 8:18 AM, Christian Heimes wrote:

> By the way Coverity Scan doesn't understand Python code. It can only
> analyzes C, C++ and Java code.

Have you (or Coverity) thought about which, if any, of the C defect 
categories apply to Python? (Assuming no use of ctypes ;-). Would it 
make any sense to apply their technology to Python code scanning?

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy



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