PyVerDetector: A Chrome Extension Detecting the Python Version of Stack Overflow Code Snippets

Yang, Shiyu; Kanda, Tetsuya; Pizzolotto, Davide; German, Daniel M.; Higo, Yoshiki

doi:https://doi.org/10.1109/ICPC58990.2023.00013

PyVerDetector: A Chrome Extension Detecting the Python Version of Stack Overflow Code Snippets

Yang, Shiyu; Kanda, Tetsuya; Pizzolotto, Davide et al.

IEEE International Conference on Program Comprehension, 2023, 2023-May, 25-29

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タイトル	PyVerDetector: A Chrome Extension Detecting the Python Version of Stack Overflow Code Snippets
著者	著者名 Yang, Shiyu
	NRID 1000090780726 1000090780726 researchmap permalink t-kanda t-kanda Scopus Author ID 55853578000 55853578000 著者名 Kanda, Tetsuya
	著者名 Pizzolotto, Davide
	著者名 German, Daniel M.
	NRID 1000070452414 1000070452414 ORCID 0000-0002-8278-8975 0000-0002-8278-8975 researchmap permalink yoshiki.higo yoshiki.higo Scopus Author ID 7004831134 7004831134 著者名 Higo, Yoshiki
キーワード等	Compatibility
	Python version detector
	Stack Overflow
内容	Yang S., Kanda T., Pizzolotto D., et al. PyVerDetector: A Chrome Extension Detecting the Python Version of Stack Overflow Code Snippets. IEEE International Conference on Program Comprehension 2023-May, 25 (2023); https://doi.org/10.1109/ICPC58990.2023.00013.
抄録	Over the years, Stack Overflow (SO) has accumulated numerous code snippets, with developers going to SO for problem solutions and code references. However, in the case of the Python programming language, Python 3 is not necessarily backward compatible with Python 2. The major implication of this versioning problem is that code written in Python 2 may not be interpreted by Python 3 without modifications. This issue may affect the usability of Python code snippets on SO. We investigate how many Python code snippets on SO suffer from version compatibility issues, and find that about 10% of the snippets exhibit this problem. Moreover, of the code snippets that are interpretable only by Python 2 or Python 3, less than 17% are tagged with the Python version.In this paper, we present a Chrome extension called PyVerDetector. This extension allows the user to select a given version of Python and verifies whether the code snippets on a given SO question are compatible with the user's selected Python version, providing error messages if not. The tool parses snippets and can determine versioning errors due to differences in syntax and also provides the user with a list of Python versions capable of interpreting each code snippet.
会議情報	会議名 International Conference on Program Comprehension 2023 回次 31 主催機関 IEEE 開催期間 May 15th to May 16th, 2023 開催会場 Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre 開催地 Melbourne 開催国オーストラリア
出版者	IEEE Computer Society
収録物名	IEEE International Conference on Program Comprehension
巻(号)	2023-May
ページ	25-29
刊行年月	2023-07-13
言語	英語
ハンドルURL	https://hdl.handle.net/11094/93141
PISSN	26437147
eISSN	26437171
関連情報 (isVersionOf)	DOI (出版社版) https://doi.org/10.1109/ICPC58990.2023.00013
アクセス権	open access
権利情報	© 2023 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. Permission from IEEE must be obtained for all other uses, in any current or future media, including reprinting/republishing this material for advertising or promotional purposes, creating new collective works, for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or reuse of any copyrighted component of this work in other works.
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DCTERMS.bibliographicCitation	IEEE International Conference on Program Comprehension. 2023, 2023-May, p. 25-29
DC.title	PyVerDetector: A Chrome Extension Detecting the Python Version of Stack Overflow Code Snippets
DC.creator	Yang, Shiyu
	Kanda, Tetsuya
	Pizzolotto, Davide
	German, Daniel M.
	Higo, Yoshiki
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DC.subject	Compatibility
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DC.description	Yang S., Kanda T., Pizzolotto D., et al. PyVerDetector: A Chrome Extension Detecting the Python Version of Stack Overflow Code Snippets. IEEE International Conference on Program Comprehension 2023-May, 25 (2023); https://doi.org/10.1109/ICPC58990.2023.00013.
DCTERMS.abstract	Over the years, Stack Overflow (SO) has accumulated numerous code snippets, with developers going to SO for problem solutions and code references. However, in the case of the Python programming language, Python 3 is not necessarily backward compatible with Python 2. The major implication of this versioning problem is that code written in Python 2 may not be interpreted by Python 3 without modifications. This issue may affect the usability of Python code snippets on SO. We investigate how many Python code snippets on SO suffer from version compatibility issues, and find that about 10% of the snippets exhibit this problem. Moreover, of the code snippets that are interpretable only by Python 2 or Python 3, less than 17% are tagged with the Python version.In this paper, we present a Chrome extension called PyVerDetector. This extension allows the user to select a given version of Python and verifies whether the code snippets on a given SO question are compatible with the user's selected Python version, providing error messages if not. The tool parses snippets and can determine versioning errors due to differences in syntax and also provides the user with a list of Python versions capable of interpreting each code snippet.
DC.rights	© 2023 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. Permission from IEEE must be obtained for all other uses, in any current or future media, including reprinting/republishing this material for advertising or promotional purposes, creating new collective works, for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or reuse of any copyrighted component of this work in other works.
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