[code-quality] Fwd: [Python-Dev] [Announcement] New mailing list for code quality tools including Flake8, Pyflakes and Pep8

[Tarek Ziadé]

On 4/4/13 4:39 PM, Ian Cordasco wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> Alfredo brought up an excellent question on python-dev following the
> announcement of our new list. I don't think there are any
> pyflakes/pylint/etc. checks run against CPython currently. Has anyone
> thought about doing this and seeing how many errors or warnings there
> are? I would hope there aren't that many, but with modules like
> unittest I could see pep8 giving a lot of warnings.

basically, most of the stdlib is non-pep8 ;)
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Charles-François Natali <cf.natali at gmail.com>
> Date: Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 12:57 AM
> Subject: Re: [Python-Dev] [Announcement] New mailing list for code
> quality tools including Flake8, Pyflakes and Pep8
> To: Alfredo Solano Martínez <asolano at icai.es>
> Cc: Ian Cordasco <graffatcolmingov at gmail.com>, Python Dev
> <Python-Dev at python.org>
>
>
>> Are you planning to cover the code quality of the interpreter itself
>> too? I've been recently reading through the cert.org secure coding
>> practice recommendations and was wondering if there has is any ongoing
>> effort to perform static analysis on the cpython codebase.
> AFAICT CPython already benefits from Coverity scans (I guess the
> Python-security guys receive those notifications). Note that this only
> covers the C codebase.
>
> cf
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