Paddy wrote:
> I just Googled and found the Python-Dev thread 'About "Coverity Study
> Ranks LAMP Code Quality" '. I was heartened by the type of issues
> raised in the discussion - it leaves me content with whats
> 'under-the-hood' in Python.
>
> You maintainers don't seem to bang your own drum,
Delaney, Timothy wrote:
> However, there were definitely things found that were real bugs, and
> subsequently fixed.
absolutely. but a significant chunk of those bugs were in the "will leak
references or access null pointers under extreme low-memory conditions,
but it's not very likely that you
I just Googled and found the Python-Dev thread 'About "Coverity Study
Ranks LAMP Code Quality" '. I was heartened by the type of issues
raised in the discussion - it leaves me content with whats
'under-the-hood' in Python.
You maintainers don't seem to bang your own drum, which is a good
thing, bu
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 t
"Paddy" wrote:
> I followed the links to the coverity page that shows their table of
> errors found, and subsequently fixed in tools used for the LAMP stack.
> They say that they informed the maintainers of the software about the
> precise errors found and the number of errors has been tracked sin
I followed the links to the coverity page that shows their table of
errors found, and subsequently fixed in tools used for the LAMP stack.
They say that they informed the maintainers of the software about the
precise errors found and the number of errors has been tracked since
then.
It seems there
On behalf of the Python development team and the Python
community, I'm happy to announce the release of Python 2.4.3
(release candidate 1).
Python 2.4.3 is a bug-fix release. See the release notes at
the website (also available as Misc/NEWS in the source
distribution) for details of the more t
