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

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Thu Apr 4 16:42:12 CEST 2013


Le Thu, 4 Apr 2013 06:57:14 +0200,
Charles-François Natali <cf.natali at gmail.com> a écrit :
> > 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.

Correction: the security@ address doesn't receive any coverity
notifications. Perhaps someone checks the (private) coverity builds from
time to time, but I don't think there's anything automatic.

Regards

Antoine.




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