Intel has introduced something called CESR, written in Python, to aid C, C++, and Fortran programmers in reducing the sizes of programs included in bug reports. Here is a brief description from http://cache-www.intel.com/cd/00/00/21/93/219320_relnotes_10.pdf :
"Compiler Error Source Reducer (CESR) is a set of utilities which are useful individually or collectively in gathering, reducing, pinpointing, protecting, documenting, and bundling test cases comprised of C/C++ or Fortran source code. It can be helpful if you have a large application for which you want to extract a small test case for submission to Intel® Premier Support. CESR can be downloaded from Intel® Premier Support File Downloads - search for text CESR in the file description. CESR is unsupported and should be considered experimental, but we welcome your feedback on it through Intel® Premier Support. CESR requires prior installation of Python 2.2 or newer." I think one needs to qualify for "Intel Premier Support" to get CESR. I wonder if a similar open-source Python program exists. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
