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gto76/python-cheatsheet

Comprehensive Python Cheatsheet

13.0 Moderate pattern signal View on GitHub

Maintenance and Governance Review

This report summarizes scanner evidence for gto76/python-cheatsheet, a Python project with 38,693 GitHub stars. SynthScan examined 50,745 lines of code across 46 source files, recording 1229 pattern matches distributed across 6 syntactic categories. The legacy adjusted pattern signal is 13.0 (Moderate pattern signal); it is not an authorship estimate.

Use the findings to ask whether maintainers can explain intent, verify dependencies, simplify unnecessary scaffolding, and focus review effort. Risk Payload v1 adds ownership, supply-chain, over-engineering, and review-effort vectors when available. These are prompts for human verification, not probabilities, security findings, or measured maintenance costs.

13.0
Adjusted Signal
13.0
Raw Pattern Score
100%
Time Factor
2026-07-29
Last Push
38.7K
Stars
Python
Language
50.7K
Lines of Code
46
Files
1.2K
Pattern Hits
2026-10-12
Scan Date
0.11
HC Hit Rate

Risk Review · v3

Use each vector to guide manual verification of the underlying findings.

Cognitive Ownership Risk 45.7/100 · MEDIUM

Can maintainers explain intent, assumptions, and trade-offs? 1218 finding(s).

Hallucinated Dependency & Supply Chain Risk 3.5/100 · LOW

Are imports declared and package/API names verified? 10 finding(s).

Agent Over-Engineering Ratio 0.6/100 · LOW

Are wrappers, guards, and repeated structures necessary? 2 finding(s).

PR Review Velocity Impact 71.2/100 · HIGH

Which changes need focused human review? 1229 finding(s).

What These Metrics Mean

Adjusted Signal
Legacy pattern score normalized per 1,000 scanned lines and multiplied by the repository-level time factor. It is not an estimate of AI authorship.
Raw Pattern Score
Sum of severity- and context-weighted pattern findings before applying the time factor.
Time Factor
A coarse multiplier based on repository last-push metadata. It does not identify when individual code was written.
Pattern Hits
Count of configured pattern findings. Review each location and surrounding code before acting.
HC Hit Rate
High- and critical-severity findings per scanned file. Severity is a configured detector weight, not proof of a vulnerability or authorship.
Lines / Files
Scan coverage denominators used by the legacy normalized score.

Pattern-Signal History

This chart tracks the legacy adjusted pattern score across scan runs. Changes can reflect source changes, scan coverage, or detector/scoring versions; they do not measure AI adoption or prove that a team refactored code. Compare runs only when their scoring versions are compatible. The dashed line tracks the raw pattern-hit count.

Severity Breakdown

Groups findings by configured severity weight. Severity is not a confidence estimate, security rating, or proof that a package is missing. Verify imports against the project's manifests and inspect each finding in its local design context.

CRITICAL 2HIGH 3MEDIUM 0LOW 1224

Directory Score Breakdown

This horizontal bar chart shows where configured pattern scores accumulate across directories. Treat the bars as locations to inspect, not as evidence of authorship or code quality. Use the file-level findings to decide whether a directory needs a focused ownership, dependency, complexity, or review check.

Pattern Findings

The scanner identified 1229 distinct pattern matches across 6 syntactic categories. Each entry below represents a discrete location in the source code where the engine recorded a detector match to inspect in context. Expand any category row to inspect the individual file paths, line numbers, code snippets, and the lexical context (CODE, COMMENT, or STRING) in which each match was detected.

Reading the findings table: The Severity column indicates the configured finding weight (CRITICAL / HIGH / MEDIUM / LOW). The Context column identifies whether the match occurred inside executable code, an inline comment, or a string literal — legacy comment-context matches receive a ×1.5 score weight. The ⚡ bolt icon marks clustered matches: three or more patterns within a 10-line window, each receiving an additional ×1.5 density multiplier under the legacy scoring model.

Over-Commented Block1217 hits · 619 pts
SeverityFileLineSnippetContext
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Hallucination Indicators2 hits · 20 pts
SeverityFileLineSnippetContext
CRITICALweb/jquery-3.4.0.slim.min.js2!function(e,t){"use strict";"object"==typeof module&&"object"==typeof module.exports?module.exports=e.document?t(e,!0):fCODE
CRITICALweb/jquery-3.4.0.min.js2!function(e,t){"use strict";"object"==typeof module&&"object"==typeof module.exports?module.exports=e.document?t(e,!0):fCODE
Cross-Language Confusion (JS/TS)2 hits · 10 pts
SeverityFileLineSnippetContext
HIGHparse.js68 print(func.__name__)CODE
HIGHparse.js71 print(res)CODE
Unused Imports6 hits · 6 pts
SeverityFileLineSnippetContext
LOWweb/update_plots.py11CODE
LOWpdf/create_index.py6CODE
LOWpdf/create_index.py7CODE
LOWpdf/create_index.py8CODE
LOWpdf/create_index.py9CODE
LOWpdf/create_index.py10CODE
Empty Error Handlers1 hit · 5 pts
SeverityFileLineSnippetContext
HIGHweb/convert_table.py36except EOFError:CODE
Hyper-Verbose Identifiers1 hit · 1 pts
SeverityFileLineSnippetContext
LOWREADME.md890def func_that_is_passed_to_dec():CODE