Re: [Gnumed-devel] lack of static (compile time checking) in python.

[Les Ferguson]

On Monday 28 July 2003 20:33, s j tan wrote:
> It would be nice for a tool for python that does:
>             1. assisted text input ( whatever that’s called) , i.e.
> recognizes library method names , does some syntax checking, in an IDE.
>
> Besides having to give up slack programming habits,  is there an easier
> way to deal with pythons non-compiling non-type checking philosophy?

I'm still fairly new on Python, but I have installed the latest 
Boa-Constructor IDE, and it has what I would call the beginnings of 
code-completion - you can type a dot after a class name then pop up a 
select-list of things belonging to that class (it may do more I haven't 
really looked into it).  The syntax coloring helps a little in 
double-checking your code as you go also.

On the tools side, it appears to hook in several useful things, profiling your 
code and checking its validity with PyChecker, which has a promising 
description page but I have not used it at all yet, this sounds like what you 
want.

Does anybody use Boa-Constructor for their regular Python IDE, or just for 
designing forms ?  Is it worth the effort, or should one just keep an eye on 
it as a project-in-development still ?

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Les Ferguson