New to Python: Features

[Alex Martelli]

Cameron Laird <claird at lairds.us> wrote:
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> >> 31. Concepts of Protocols (whereby one may organize related methods into
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> >No.  Test-driven development is the norm in Python.
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> ... but see <URL: http://www.pypackage.org/packages/python-dbc >
> for one among several DbC initiatives.

...and PEP 246 for Protocols (and more relevantly, pluggable
adaptation).  Eby's PyProtocols implements these ideas (and more); my
talk given earlier this year at OSCON (on masquerading and adaptation
design patterns in Python) has a short section on PEP 246, you should
find the PDF at www.strakt.com.


Alex