Good programming as seen in: Fw: Is this possible in Python ?

[King Kuta]

Cool,
well thanks Alex and sorry if I upset you :-)

Perhaps I should have read your book before posting...

Anyway my news server does not show it.comp.lang.python as an active
newsgroup, probabily because I am not in Italy.

Thanks,
Marco

My news server does not show
"Alex Martelli" <aleax at aleax.it> ha scritto nel messaggio
news:CpHxa.192776$K35.4602532 at news2.tin.it...
> King Kuta wrote:
>    ...
> > No "debbugging" ? Wow that sounds heaven if OOP could save me taht....
>
> That's an overbid and not what Chad said:
>
> >> building your software in such a way as you don't have to ever do this
> >> kind of debugging (the old "peek at variables and trace program flow",
>
> not THIS KIND OF debugging.  Bugs still exist and you still have to
> find them (then you beef up your test suite to ensure the bug is caught
> in testing).  But you can do that in different ways.
>
>
> > Can I ask anybody to explain to me (or simply point me to online
> > references...) the meaning of:
> > (i) ...you design with testing suites (such as unit tests)...
>
> I took over 30 pages in the Nutshell to cover "Testing, Debugging
> and Optimizing" (chapter 17) and I'm not going to summarize them
> here.  Google for "test-driven" and "test-first" to get the gist of
> this approach.
>
>
> > (ii) ...and "contracts" (often reduced to putting 'assert' statements
>
> Similarly, goggle for "design by contract".
>
> BTW, since you're posting from a .it address -- it.comp.lang.python
> is now open and you can discuss Python in Italian there -- much lower
> volume than comp.lang.python, of course, but still could be useful.
>
>
> Alex
>