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Predicate guardNode

Gets a node that controls whether other nodes are evaluated.

In the base case, this is the last node of conditionBlock, and flipped is false. This definition accounts for (short circuting) and- and or-expressions, as the structure of basic blocks will reflect their semantics.

However, in the program

if not is_safe(path):
  return

the last node in the ConditionBlock is not is_safe(path).

We would like to consider also is_safe(path) a guard node, albeit with flipped being true. Thus we recurse through not-expressions.

Import path

import semmle.python.dataflow.new.internal.DataFlowPublic
ControlFlowNode guardNode(ConditionBlock conditionBlock, boolean flipped)