Spring-like IoC in python?

[David Stanek]

On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 9:24 AM, andrew cooke <andrew at acooke.org> wrote:
> David Stanek wrote:
> [...]
>> The documentation is a little lacking, but that will be changing in
>> the next few days. Examples of using snake-guice with CherryPy, Django
>> and TurboGears are just a few days off as well. The API tests[3] show
>> simple clear examples.
> [...]
>> 3.
>> http://code.google.com/p/snake-guice/source/browse/trunk/snakeguice/tests/test_api_25.py
>
> can i make a suggestion?  add comments to those tests explaining what they
> do in fairly boring, introductory detail (ie "we are injecting a value in
> ... because ...").
>
> also, explain "ch" (class hierarchy) or, if it's just a meaningless module
> name, use
>
> from ... import Person
>
> because i thought it was something important and now think it's noise and
> if its noise it wasted my time.  i know "Person" is the kind of class used
> in examples, but i am unsure if "ch" is something special your system
> needs or not.
>
> i was going to argue that ioc isn't needed in python because the
> motivation for it in java - that you need a more concise configuration
> language - doesn't exist.  what's the point of using xml to simulate a
> scripting language when you are already in a scripting language.  but
> maybe i have missed something, given that this stuff exists (hence me
> trying to understand it).
>

That is a very good point. Up until recently I had been mostly working
on getting it ready to use at work. I am only beginning my attempt to
get community involvement.


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