Re: Opensource Python whitebox code analysis tool recommendations

[Sarah Newman <srn () prgmr com>]

On 12/06/2016 09:02 AM, Fiedler Roman wrote:
> Hello list,
>
> I just stubled over effects of following programming error due to unwanted 
> singleton in Python, bypassing intended process restrictions (allowed number 
> of elements in my case) and of course data corruption:
>
> class A:
>   def __init__(self, value=[]):
>     self.value=value
>     self.valueCloned=value[:]
>   def show(self):
>     print 'IDs value %x, cloned %x' % (id(self.value), id(self.valueCloned))
>   def append(self, data):
>     self.value.append(data)
>
> # Keep reference to avoid garbage collection interference.
> objFirst=A()
> objFirst.show()
> objNext=A()
> objNext.show()
> # Check references to prohibit optimization.
> if objFirst==objNext: raise Exception('Impossible')
>
>
>
> As this type of error seems to be more common in code, at least according to 
> grep, are there tool recommendations to do automatic analysis of code?

It's not exactly the tool you're looking for, but pylint would have warned you:

W:  2, 2: Dangerous default value [] as argument (dangerous-default-value)

--Sarah