Refactoring browser for Python?

[Bijan Parsia]

wheineman <wheinemanNOwhSPAM at uconect.net.invalid> wrote:

> There seems to be some discussion of just this at WikiWiki. See
> 
> http://c2.com/cgi-bin/wiki?PythonRefactoringBrowser
> 
> and
> 
> http://c2.com/cgi-bin/wiki?BicycleRepairMan
> 
> BicycleRepairMan being the current name of the browser (highly
> commendable choice). There's only talk at the moment but they are
> looking for volunteers.

I've been interested in Python refactoring for a while, at least, as a
theoretical issue. It wouldn't be all that difficult to add automatic
refactorings to, say, IDLE. A tricky bit is coming up with a list of
suitible refactorings. But if one started with simple, intramodular
refactorings (fucntion->method, method->function, moving things up and
down a class heirarchy, fuction stored to local, etc.) I don't imagine
it would take much time automate them at all and they would be
immediately useful.

Hmm. I imagine various attribute settings and gettings are ripe for
refactorings, but I don't know, off hand, the details.

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