[Python-ideas] Why is design-by-contracts not widely adopted?

[Chris Barker]

On Tue, Sep 25, 2018 at 10:10 PM Lee Braiden <leebraid at gmail.com> wrote:

> It's the reason why type checking exists, and why bounds checking exists,
> and why unit checking exists too.
>

And yet Python has none of those. They all provide safety, but also place a
burden on the developer.

So why use Python? I’m not arguing that all those features don’t have their
advantages, but I am wondering why add them all to Python, rather than
using a language designed for safety?

But Python has such a great ecosystem of packages! Yes, it does — but you
might ask yourself why that is.

All that being said — do go and make a nice DbC package for Python — maybe
all us naysayers will grow to love it!

But could we please stop cluttering this list with discussion of how great
or not great it is?

These meta-conversations are getting really tiresome.

-CHB


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