graphical or flow charting design aid for python class development?

gene tani gene.tani at gmail.com
Wed Aug 31 15:45:10 EDT 2005


Have you looked at class browser module?  Not the graphical tool you're
looking for, but maybe a good start

http://www.python.org/doc/2.0.1/lib/module-pyclbr.html

William Gill wrote:
> Being somewhat new to Python, and having a tendency to over complicate
> things in my class design, I was wondering if anyone can suggest a
> simple graphical or flowcharting tool that they use to organize their
> class and program  design?  Because of a 55 mph head-on accident a few
> years back, I have short term memory problems, so flipping back and
> forth between pages of code is next to impossible for me to keep
> straight.  A simple graphical model  would allow me to 'see' everything
> in one view, and better organize my resulting code. I have had limited
> success using pydoc to view my classes, but it's not really much help in
> development, just review, and sometimes there is too much info.
>
> I have used editors for other languages that allow the view to expand
> and collapse functions/methods (like message threads here on the board),
> which help, but I haven't seen anything like this for python.
> 
> Thanks for any suggestions.
> 
> Bill




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