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

[William Tanksley]

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.

>Stu

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