Dreaming of new generation IDE

[David Cournapeau]

On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 1:13 PM, Vladimir Ignatov <kmisoft at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> > […] system "knows" all your identifiers and just regenerates
>>> > relevant portions of text from internal database-alike
>>> > representation.
>>
>> You will probably want to learn about “refactoring” to see if that's
>> related to what you mean <URL:http://www.refactoring.com/>.
>
> I mean if system actually "understands" your code (instead of try to
> figure it out from existing text files with source code), then much
> more complex refactoring is possible. My favorite refactoring is
> "Replace Method with Method Object". It is hard to imagine "external"
> tool that can provide such refactoring for python code.

You may be interested by this project, then:

http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_name=9c768dc61001121642t5bd1a7ddmd1fe9e088e1d9ab0@mail.gmail.com

It seems limited to Jython implementation unfortunately,

cheers,

David