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I wrote the script in question and actually used a simple shannon entropy value. (http://codereview.stackexchange.com/questions/868/calculating-entropy-of-a-st
by jasonmoo 10y ago
I wrote the script in question and actually used a simple shannon entropy value. (http://codereview.stackexchange.com/questions/868/calculating-entropy-of-a-string/909#909 http://codereview.stackexchange.com/questions/868/calculatin...). It worked well enough help rule out several problem spaces.
- pavel_lishin 10y agoWould you mind posting the script? I'd love to run it against our codebase and see what it comes up with. It might be a fun thing to open source as part of a "I've inherited a project, what now?" toolkit that helps you decide what to fix.
- jasonmoo 10y agoSure. It's a simple tool but the concept could be augmented toward something like the scenario you described. https://gist.github.com/jasonmoo/06691c8fea09b62aa35235fc93ee31b6 https://gist.github.com/jasonmoo/06691c8fea09b62aa35235fc93e...
- ubernostrum 10y agoIIRC Instagram released a plugin for Bandit (the OpenStack static analyzer for Python) that does this.