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From: Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu>
Subject: Re: Why Python is like C++
Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2013 19:20:30 -0500
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On 12/21/2013 5:28 PM, Roy Smith wrote:
> In article <mailman.4486.1387663424.18130.python-list@python.org>,
>   Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> wrote:
>
>> On 12/21/2013 10:10 AM, Roy Smith wrote:
>>
>>> On the last large C++ project I worked on, we decided (i.e. obeyed a
>>> corporate mandate) to start using Coverity's static analysis tool on our
>>> 15 year old codebase.  I learned a few things about static analysis then.
>>
>> CPython was about that old when Coverity started giving us reports on
>> the C part of CPython (about 400000 loc). CPython is now essentially
>> free of errors detected by Coverity.
>
> How many of those errors were real, and how many were "I suppose,
> technically, this isn't quite correct but in real life, it's just never
> going to be an issue?"  I'm not being cynical here; I'm interested to
> know if it really helped.

http://search.gmane.org/ search gmane.comp.python.devel for 'Coverity' 
and you should get some relevant hits.


-- 
Terry Jan Reedy