Hello, I would like to notify the community about the availability of new python-dbc module, allowing one to perform basic design-by-contract checks using the docstring definitions in epydoc format. No public releases has been done yet, but the home page with overall instructions is created at http://python-dbc.googlecode.com/ and the code is available at https://python-dbc.googlecode.com/hg/ (this is a Mercurial repository, use hg clone). At the moment, the primary functionality available is the validation of @precondition/@postcondition/@type/@rtype docstring fields in every function wrapped using @contract_epydoc decorator. The code is early, lacks a proper amount of unit tests and documentation, and definitely may have bugs for now, but it is stress-tested at the moment in internal projects, so far so good. The future plans include allowing to use the @contract_epydoc decorator to wrap the classes, thus making possible to add the support of @invariant fields in the class docstrings. -- With best regards, Alexander Myodov email: amyodov@gmail.com <mailto:amyodov@gmail.com> My LinkedIn page <http://ru.linkedin.com/in/amyodov>,^en MoiKrug page <http://honeyman.moikrug.ru/>,^ru LiveJournal blog <http://honeyman.livejournal.com/>^ru