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CodeQL for Python
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Experiment and learn how to write effective and efficient queries for CodeQL databases generated from Python codebases.
.. toctree::
:hidden:
introduce-libraries-python
functions
statements-expressions
pointsto-type-infer
control-flow
taint-tracking
- `Basic Python query <https://lgtm.com/help/lgtm/console/ql-python-basic-example>`__ : Learn to write and run a simple CodeQL query using LGTM.
- :doc:`CodeQL library for Python <introduce-libraries-python>`: When you need to analyze a Python program, you can make use of the large collection of classes in the CodeQL library for Python.
- :doc:`Functions in Python <functions>`: You can use syntactic classes from the standard CodeQL library to find Python functions and identify calls to them.
- :doc:`Expressions and statements in Python <statements-expressions>`: You can use syntactic classes from the CodeQL library to explore how Python expressions and statements are used in a codebase.
- :doc:`Analyzing control flow in Python <control-flow>`: You can write CodeQL queries to explore the control-flow graph of a Python program, for example, to discover unreachable code or mutually exclusive blocks of code.
- :doc:`Pointer analysis and type inference in Python <pointsto-type-infer>`: At runtime, each Python expression has a value with an associated type. You can learn how an expression behaves at runtime by using type-inference classes from the standard CodeQL library.
- :doc:`Analyzing data flow and tracking tainted data in Python <taint-tracking>`: You can use CodeQL to track the flow of data through a Python program. Tracking user-controlled, or tainted, data is a key technique for security researchers.
Further reading
---------------
- For examples of how to query common Python elements, see the `Python cookbook <https://help.semmle.com/wiki/display/CBPython>`__.
- For the queries used in LGTM, display a `Python query <https://lgtm.com/search?q=language%3APython&t=rules>`__ and click **Open in query console** to see the code used to find alerts.
- For more information about the library for JavaScript see the `CodeQL library for Python <https://help.semmle.com/qldoc/python/>`__.