Mailman 3 April 2013 - code-quality

news from the Pylint front
by Sylvain Thénault 07 May '13

07 May '13

Hi there, first post to the code-quality mailing list. Among others, I've been developping and maintaining Pylint for the past 10 years with some fellows, and it seems this is now the place to be for code quality checkers, so here we go. You may be aware, or not, that things are moving these days on the pylint front. Two noticeable things: * pylint development is moving to bitbucket and away from its "parent" (Logilab) [1] * a pylint sprint will be held in Toulouse (France) from June 17 to 19, with currently 2 or 3 people from Logilab and probably at least 3 from Google [2] Following the bitbucket move, we're currently discussing about moving Pylint related discussions from its current mailing-list (python-projects(a)lists.logilab.org) to this one. You can see from the archives [3] that this is not high traffic, but neither negligeable compared to this list current traffic. Of course I would like to know opinion from people here before acting anything. Last but not least, it would be great if some flake8 fellows would be available to sprint with us, so we can see how to integrate pylint there and share efforts. Waiting for your feedbacks, cheers, [1] http://www.logilab.org/blogentry/129458 [2] http://www.logilab.org/133321 [3] http://lists.logilab.org/pipermail/python-projects/ -- Sylvain Thénault, LOGILAB, Paris (01.45.32.03.12) - Toulouse (05.62.17.16.42) Formations Python, Debian, Méth. Agiles: http://www.logilab.fr/formations Développement logiciel sur mesure: http://www.logilab.fr/services CubicWeb, the semantic web framework: http://www.cubicweb.org

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Biggest Fake Conference in Computer Science
by eliswilson＠hushmail.com 30 Apr '13

30 Apr '13

Biggest Fake Conference in Computer Science We are researchers from different parts of the world and conducted a study on the world’s biggest bogus computer science conference WORLDCOMP http://sites.google.com/site/worlddump1 organized by Prof. Hamid Arabnia from University of Georgia, USA. We submitted a fake paper to WORLDCOMP 2011 and again (the same paper with a modified title) to WORLDCOMP 2012. This paper had numerous fundamental mistakes. Sample statements from that paper include: (1). Binary logic is fuzzy logic and vice versa (2). Pascal developed fuzzy logic (3). Object oriented languages do not exhibit any polymorphism or inheritance (4). TCP and IP are synonyms and are part of OSI model (5). Distributed systems deal with only one computer (6). Laptop is an example for a super computer (7). Operating system is an example for computer hardware Also, our paper did not express any conceptual meaning. However, it was accepted both the times without any modifications (and without any reviews) and we were invited to submit the final paper and a payment of $500+ fee to present the paper. We decided to use the fee for better purposes than making Prof. Hamid Arabnia richer. After that, we received few reminders from WORLDCOMP to pay the fee but we never responded. This fake paper is different from the two fake papers already published (see https://sites.google.com/site/worlddump4 for details) in WORLDCOMP. We MUST say that you should look at the above website if you have any thoughts of participating in WORLDCOMP. DBLP and other indexing agencies have stopped indexing WORLDCOMP’s proceedings since 2011 due to its fakeness. See http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/conf/icai/index.html for of one of the conferences of WORLDCOMP and notice that there is no listing after 2010. See Section 2 of http://sites.google.com/site/dumpconf for comments from well-known researchers about WORLDCOMP. The status of your WORLDCOMP papers can be changed from scientific to other (i.e., junk or non-technical) at any time. Better not to have a paper than having it in WORLDCOMP and spoil the resume and peace of mind forever! Our study revealed that WORLDCOMP is money making business, using University of Georgia mask, for Prof. Hamid Arabnia. He is throwing out a small chunk of that money (around 20 dollars per paper published in WORLDCOMP’s proceedings) to his puppet (Mr. Ashu Solo or A.M.G. Solo) who publicizes WORLDCOMP and also defends it at various forums, using fake/anonymous names. The puppet uses fake names and defames other conferences to divert traffic to WORLDCOMP. He also makes anonymous phone calls and threatens the critiques of WORLDCOMP (See Item 7 of Section 5 of above website). That is, the puppet does all his best to get a maximum number of papers published at WORLDCOMP to get more money into his (and Prof. Hamid Arabnia’s) pockets. Prof. Hamid Arabnia makes a lot of tricks. For example, he appeared in a newspaper to fool the public, claiming him a victim of cyber-attack (see Item 8 in Section 5 of above website). Monte Carlo Resort (the venue of WORLDCOMP for more than 10 years, until 2012) has refused to provide the venue for WORLDCOMP’13 because of the fears of their image being tarnished due to WORLDCOMP’s fraudulent activities. That is why WORLDCOMP’13 is taking place at a different resort. WORLDCOMP will not be held after 2013. The draft paper submission deadline is over but still there are no committee members, no reviewers, and there is no conference Chairman. The only contact details available on WORLDCOMP’s website is just an email address! We ask Prof. Hamid Arabnia to publish all reviews for all the papers (after blocking identifiable details) since 2000 conference. Reveal the names and affiliations of all the reviewers (for each year) and how many papers each reviewer had reviewed on average. We also ask him to look at the Open Challenge (Section 6) at https://sites.google.com/site/moneycomp1 and respond if he has any professional values. Sorry for posting to multiple lists. Spreading the word is the only way to stop this bogus conference. Please forward this message to other mailing lists and people. We are shocked with Prof. Hamid Arabnia and his puppet’s activities at http://worldcomp-fake-bogus.blogspot.com Search Google using the keyword worldcomp fake for additional links.

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Re: [code-quality] Code-quality & PEP257
by Vladimir Keleshev 17 Apr '13

17 Apr '13

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[ANN] Pyflakes 0.7
by Florent 17 Apr '13

17 Apr '13

Hi, I'm pleased to announce the release of Pyflakes 0.7. It includes several fixes and enhancements: - Add --version and --help options. - Support `python -m pyflakes` (Python 2.7 and Python 3.x). - Add attribute `Message.col` to report column offset. - Do not report redefinition of variable for a variable used in a list comprehension in a conditional. - Do not report redefinition of variable for generator expressions and set or dict comprehensions. - Do not report undefined name when the code is protected with a `NameError` exception handler. - Do not report redefinition of variable when unassigning a module imported for its side-effect. - Support special locals like `__tracebackhide__` for py.test. - Support checking doctests. - Fix issue with Turkish locale where `'i'.upper() == 'i'` in Python 2. All the best, -- Florent Xicluna

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Fwd: [Python-Dev] [Announcement] New mailing list for code quality tools including Flake8, Pyflakes and Pep8
by Ian Cordasco 04 Apr '13

04 Apr '13

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. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Charles-François Natali <cf.natali(a)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(a)icai.es> Cc: Ian Cordasco <graffatcolmingov(a)gmail.com>, Python Dev <Python-Dev(a)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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Yet another metric
by Ian Cordasco 04 Apr '13

04 Apr '13

So I was just introduced to pyroma (https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pyroma, https://bitbucket.org/regebro/pyroma) which would probably work nicely as a plugin to flake8 or just as a good metric in general. It doesn't exactly measure the quality of the code itself, BUT it does measure the quality of a package which I'm sure would be useful to some (if not many) of our users. I had never thought of analyzing a package for quality beyond it's source (in all candor), so I'm fairly excited about this tool.

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Common error format for static analysis tools
by Vladimir Keleshev 03 Apr '13

03 Apr '13

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Pending proposals for Pyflakes
by Florent 02 Apr '13

02 Apr '13

Hello, there are two patches in Launchpad that I plan to merge within few days. "import fu; del fu complains about RedefinedWhileUnused" https://bugs.launchpad.net/pyflakes/+bug/1162161 https://github.com/pyflakes/pyflakes/pull/4 "ignore special locals of test frameworks" https://bugs.launchpad.net/pyflakes/+bug/1105525 https://github.com/pyflakes/pyflakes/pull/5 If you are interested, you can review these issues and comment. -- Florent

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