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Adding static typing to Python

Magnus Lie Hetland mlh at vier.idi.ntnu.no
Tue Feb 19 04:39:10 EST 2002 
In article <24c39b2c.0202181531.187fad4c at posting.google.com>,
Alexander Jerusalem wrote:
>Has anyone heard of plans to add static type checking to Python? I
>like Python very much but I don't use it for bigger projects because I
>fear the testing effort. For example I just refactored a rather large
>Java codebase. And when I change a method name for example, all I have
>to do is run everything thru the compiler and it will show me all
>places in other classes where this method is called, so I can go there
>and chenge the method call as well.
>
>In Python I'd have to test the whole software suite including each and
>every branch in each and every if statement to be sure that I didn't
>forget something. To build such a test suite would take almost as long
>as it takes to build the whole software and I'd have to maintain the
>test suite as well. That's just unafordable.
[snip]

Have you heard of PyChecker?

>
>Regards,
>Alexander Jerusalem

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