My quarterly question on Design by Contract in Python...

[Laurent POINTAL]

On Sat, 08 May 1999 18:26:13 GMT, wtanksle at dolphin.openprojects.net
(William Tanksley) wrote:

>: On Fri, 07 May 1999 22:25:40 +1000, Stuart Hungerford wrote:
>: >Hi all,
>: 
>: >Every so often after a minor or major Python
>: >release I like to ask the gurus of this group
>: >about implementing Design By Contract mechanisms
>: >(a-la Eiffel) in Python.
>: 
>: Nobody seems to have made this connectionn yet, but...
>: 
>: Sommeone posted a system a while ago which allowed addition of arbitrary
>: code before and after a function.  With some work, that system could be
>: mixed into a class (perhaps even a metaclass) to implement pre/post
>: conditions and invariants.

I'm the guy. If interested by the 'patching' module, email to me, I
will give you the code (too large to be posted here I think) and the
html doc file.

A+

Laurent.

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