RELEASED Python 2.4.3, release candidate 1

Delaney, Timothy (Tim) tdelaney at avaya.com
Thu Mar 23 17:24:25 EST 2006


Fredrik Lundh wrote:

> (and there was never 96 real errors in the code base, of course;
> coverity is a remarkable tool, but there's plenty of room for
> mistakes when used on a code base this large)

Yep - from the discussions on python-dev, a lot of the "error-fixing"
was telling Coverity what things it could safely ignore ;)

However, there were definitely things found that were real bugs, and
subsequently fixed. It also provoked at least one discussion where the
code was iffy, it was entirely understandable that it was flagged, and
with some reworking it would become unambiguous. I'm not sure what the
final result was though ...

Tim Delaney



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