status of Programming by Contract (PEP 316)?

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On Aug 30, 1:17 am, Dan Stromberg - Datallegro
<dstromb... at datallegro.com> wrote:
> IMO, putting Programming by Contract into python as part of the language
> itself, or as a simple module, is a little bit like a company or
> department coming up with a mission statement.  It's easy to say that it's
> meaningless, and some will ignore it, but it still kind of sets the tone
> for how things "should be done".

I disagree. IMO automatic testing is thousands of times better than
design by contract and Python has already all the support you need
(unittest, doctest, py.test, nose, ...)


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