Re: [Python-Dev] understanding ubuntu's patches to cpython

2014-11-18 Thread Buck Evan
I feel that you've misunderstood my request entirely. I'm not trying to report an issue, just requesting help understanding how the resulting package relates to version-controlled source. It's possible that I have the wrong source entirely. Your comments seem to indicate that you believe I've clob

Re: [Python-Dev] Static checker for common Python programming errors

2014-11-18 Thread Guido van Rossum
Please also check python-static-type-check...@googlegroups.com. On Nov 18, 2014 3:06 AM, "Stefan Bucur" wrote: > Thanks for the pointer! There seem indeed to be more formal analysis tools > for JavaScript than for Python (e.g., the most recent one for JS I know of > is the Jalangi framework [1]).

Re: [Python-Dev] understanding ubuntu's patches to cpython

2014-11-18 Thread Matthias Klose
On 11/16/2014 11:23 PM, Buck Evan wrote: This particular patch caused virtualenv issue #118 and a subsequent workaround: http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-branches/ubuntu/trusty/python2.7/trusty/view/head:/debian/patches/distutils-install-layout.diff#L281

Re: [Python-Dev] Static checker for common Python programming errors

2014-11-18 Thread Stefan Bucur
Thanks for the pointer! There seem indeed to be more formal analysis tools for JavaScript than for Python (e.g., the most recent one for JS I know of is the Jalangi framework [1]). I assume the main reason is that JavaScript is standardized and somewhat simpler, so it's easier to construct formal s