prototyping good OOdesign in Python?

[Sean 'Shaleh' Perry]

> 
> Well, if you still follow this thread, the question is - how well
> Python could serve as an ARCHITECTURAL prototype if it has too rich
> OOP facilities? That is, is Python of help when trying to
> prototype certain design? Developing in C++ looks so unnecessary hard
> after things were done in Python... 
> Or, it may be put this way: what discipline a Python programmer must
> obey to allow it's prototype to be conveniently rewriten in C++?
> 
> The above thoughts aren't probably well-formed. But I hope
> my concern is understood.
> 

architectural prototyping is what I usually use python for when I prototype,
the other use is rapid class creation for behaviour testing.  You have to keep
in mind the goal of eventually porting to C++ but it is a prototype so there is
not a lot of code there anyway.