Open Source Python Code Sets New Standard for Quality: Study

Sep 03, 2013, 06:00 (0 Talkback[s])
(Other stories by Sean Michael Kerner)

The defect density in Python programming language code improved to 0.005 defects per thousand lines of code, a new study finds.

The open-source Python programming language has continued to steadily improve its code quality in recent years and now surpasses that of its open-source and proprietary peers, according to a study published by development testing vendor Coverity.

Complete Story

Related Stories:

• Python for Newbies(Jan 28, 2011)
• Moving to Python 3(Feb 24, 2011)
• Pretty Python Plotting With CairoPlot(Apr 06, 2011)
• Future of Python programming language on a Linux platform(Aug 19, 2011)