PyPI / xxhash / 3.8.2

xxhash 3.8.2

Source

https://github.com/ifduyue/python-xxhash

Tag scanned

v3.8.2

Compared with

v3.8.1 (0 signals introduced since)

Files

18 scanned, 7 skipped (binary, oversized, or unrecognised)

Signals

0 critical · 0 warn · 10 info

Scan time

2.7 s

LLM review

Reviewed by claude-haiku-5-5 (Anthropic): 1 of 1 warn and critical signal; 1 demoted to info.

Disclude version

4.0.0

Scanned (UTC)

2026-10-19 01:55

Signals

Ordered by severity, then signals introduced in this release. Hidden characters are shown as ⟨U+…⟩.

1. info identifier-low-length bench.sh:1:1

   40 of 70 non-conventional identifiers are single-character (57%) (token pass, confidence 0.50)

2. info dynamic-execution bench.sh:8:1

   command name is a variable (`$PYTHON`) that this file sets only to plain text (ast pass, confidence 0.40)

   echo -n "    xxh32_intdigest     1000B: "
   $PYTHON -mtimeit -s 'from xxhash import xxh32_intdigest' \
                    -s 'import os'  \
                    -s 'import random' \

3. info dynamic-execution bench.sh:16:1

   command name is a variable (`$PYTHON`) that this file sets only to plain text (ast pass, confidence 0.40)

   echo -n "    xxh32_intdigest    10000B: "
   $PYTHON -mtimeit -s 'from xxhash import xxh32_intdigest' \
                    -s 'import os'  \
                    -s 'import random' \

4. info dynamic-execution bench.sh:25:1

   command name is a variable (`$PYTHON`) that this file sets only to plain text (ast pass, confidence 0.40)

   echo -n "    xxh64_intdigest     1000B: "
   $PYTHON -mtimeit -s 'from xxhash import xxh64_intdigest' \
                    -s 'import os'  \
                    -s 'import random' \

5. info dynamic-execution bench.sh:33:1

   command name is a variable (`$PYTHON`) that this file sets only to plain text (ast pass, confidence 0.40)

   echo -n "    xxh64_intdigest    10000B: "
   $PYTHON -mtimeit -s 'from xxhash import xxh64_intdigest' \
                    -s 'import os'  \
                    -s 'import random' \

6. info dynamic-execution bench.sh:42:1

   command name is a variable (`$PYTHON`) that this file sets only to plain text (ast pass, confidence 0.40)

   echo -n "    xxh3_64_intdigest   1000B: "
   $PYTHON -mtimeit -s 'from xxhash import xxh3_64_intdigest' \
                    -s 'import os'  \
                    -s 'import random' \

7. info dynamic-execution bench.sh:50:1

   command name is a variable (`$PYTHON`) that this file sets only to plain text (ast pass, confidence 0.40)

   echo -n "    xxh3_64_intdigest  10000B: "
   $PYTHON -mtimeit -s 'from xxhash import xxh3_64_intdigest' \
                    -s 'import os'  \
                    -s 'import random' \

8. info dynamic-execution bench.sh:59:1

   command name is a variable (`$PYTHON`) that this file sets only to plain text (ast pass, confidence 0.40)

   echo -n "    xxh3_128_intdigest  1000B: "
   $PYTHON -mtimeit -s 'from xxhash import xxh3_128_intdigest' \
                    -s 'import os'  \
                    -s 'import random' \

9. info dynamic-execution bench.sh:67:1

   command name is a variable (`$PYTHON`) that this file sets only to plain text (ast pass, confidence 0.40)

   echo -n "    xxh3_128_intdigest 10000B: "
   $PYTHON -mtimeit -s 'from xxhash import xxh3_128_intdigest' \
                    -s 'import os'  \
                    -s 'import random' \

10. info critical → info by review dynamic-execution setup.py:28:1

    `exec` at module scope (runs on import) on a non-literal expression (ast pass, confidence 0.80)

    version_dict = {}
    exec(d.joinpath("xxhash", "version.py").read_text(), {}, version_dict)
    version = version_dict["VERSION"]

    likely benign LLM, confidence 0.85 setup.py execs the package's own local version.py to extract a VERSION string at build time.

    Reasoning

    The exec runs on the contents of the package's own xxhash/version.py, read from the project directory, with an empty globals dict and the result read back as VERSION. This is a common way to load a version string without importing the package during build. Nothing in the snippet fetches remote content, decodes a blob, or spawns a shell. The pattern is unusual for setup.py and exec on a non-literal is worth noting, but the source is a local, project-controlled file.

Reproduce This Scan

Run disclude locally to verify. Add --format sarif for SARIF output. Add --llm (with an API key in the environment) to include the LLM review.

cargo install disclude --version 4.0.0
git clone https://github.com/ifduyue/python-xxhash python-xxhash && cd python-xxhash
git checkout v3.8.2
disclude scan --severity info --diff v3.8.1 .