Extending classes __init__behavior for newbies

[Westley Martínez]

On Tue, 2011-02-15 at 14:16 -0800, rantingrick wrote:
> On Feb 14, 9:44 pm, Steven D'Aprano <steve
> +comp.lang.pyt... at pearwood.info> wrote:
> > On Tue, 15 Feb 2011 09:47:54 +1000, James Mills wrote:
> > > On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 9:32 AM, rantingrick <rantingr... at gmail.com>
> > > wrote:
> > >> Those who write code bases should "design-in" practicality, re-
> > >> usability, and extendability as a forethought and NOT an afterthought.
> > >> Of course i am not suggesting that everyone must be clairvoyant.
> > >> However the vast amount of time involved in a coding project should be
> > >> spent in the design and testing phases and NOT actually writing code.
> > >> If you spend more time writing code you are not being professional, you
> > >> are being sloppy -- and it WILL catch up to you.
> >
> > > I actually agree with this. :)
> >
> > I don't. If you (generic you) have separate "write the code" and "test
> > the code" phases, your project is in trouble. You can probably get away
> > with it if it's a tiny throw-away script, but for anything more
> > substantial, you should be testing *as you are writing*. The two need to
> > go in parallel.
> 
> My statement made no such mention of "separate phases" or how each
> phase should be ordered. Here, l'll paraphrase for the folks who's
> attention span cannot last for a full paragraph. *ahem*... "You should
> spend more time designing and testing code than writing it"... I hope
> that was clear enough for you.
> 
> # In Code form.
> if (dev.design_time + dev.test_time) < dev.write_time:
>     print('Good Job Skippy!')
> else:
>     raise ScriptKiddieError
> 
> 
> 
It doesn't matter; you'll always end up spending the most time debugging
the code....