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Open Source Python Code Sets New Standard for Quality: Study

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.

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