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Datasheet: describe what the verifier does, and record the interpreter used

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  **Independent re-verification.** `verify.py` re-clones each project from scratch,
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  checks out both commits, re-applies the fix commit's tests and runs them again. It
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- shares no code with the pipeline that produced the corpus, so it would catch a
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- mistake the pipeline made rather than merely agreeing with it.
 
 
 
 
 
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  ```bash
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  python3 verify.py --sample 20
 
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  **Independent re-verification.** `verify.py` re-clones each project from scratch,
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  checks out both commits, re-applies the fix commit's tests and runs them again. It
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+ reads only the published record and the project it cites, and re-derives the
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+ result from the upstream repository.
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+ Old projects are run under an interpreter that can import them, so a record from
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+ 2016 is not judged by whether it works on a current Python. The interpreter used
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+ is reported alongside the verdict. A record that cannot be run on a given machine
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+ is reported as skipped, never as a failure.
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  ```bash
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  python3 verify.py --sample 20