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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Title
PyVerDetector: A Chrome Extension Detecting the Python Version of Stack Overflow Code Snippets
Creator
CreatorName
Yang, Shiyu
NRID
1000090780726 1000090780726
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t-kanda t-kanda
Scopus Author ID
55853578000 55853578000
CreatorName
Kanda, Tetsuya
CreatorName
Pizzolotto, Davide
CreatorName
German, Daniel M.
NRID
1000070452414 1000070452414
ORCID
0000-0002-8278-8975 0000-0002-8278-8975
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yoshiki.higo yoshiki.higo
Scopus Author ID
7004831134 7004831134
CreatorName
Higo, Yoshiki
Subject
Compatibility
Python version detector
Stack Overflow
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.
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.
Conference Information
Conference Name
International Conference on Program Comprehension 2023
Conference Sequence
31
Conference Sponsor
IEEE
Conference Date
May 15th to May 16th, 2023
Conference Venue
Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre
Conference Place
Melbourne
Conference Country
Australia
Publisher
IEEE Computer Society
Source Title
IEEE International Conference on Program Comprehension
Volume (Issue)
2023-May
Page
25-29
Date of Issued
2023-07-13
Language
English
Handle URL
https://hdl.handle.net/11094/93141
PISSN
26437147
eISSN
26437171
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DOI (Publisher Version)
https://doi.org/10.1109/ICPC58990.2023.00013
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open access
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