tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6471110.post5848966330602697175..comments2009-09-05T16:55:37.815-07:00Jason Pollockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10823039258279387446noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6471110.post-74288956284658428032009-09-05T16:55:37.815-07:002009-09-05T16:55:37.815-07:00In order to figure out which one is broken and _fix_ it, I need to be able to find the implementation.<br /><br />Duck typing makes it hard to figure out which piece of code is going to be executed because it is so context sensitive.Jason Pollockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10823039258279387446noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6471110.post-26219509295872926862009-08-10T11:25:34.027-07:002009-08-10T11:25:34.027-07:00Program to an interface, not an implementation!<br /><br />And now, for something completely different...Leohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17750082249885236030noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6471110.post-55597757315799350342008-08-07T13:16:00.000-07:002008-08-07T13:16:00.000-07:00That would remove a lot of the pain. :)<BR/><BR/>I personal solution was to pass the problem back to the developer who wrote it and get them to make my changes. ;)Jason Pollockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10823039258279387446noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6471110.post-55455100331880955842008-08-07T02:45:00.000-07:002008-08-07T02:45:00.000-07:00It puzzles me that python doesn't yet have an IDE (by which I mean something roughly Smalltalk-80-equivalent, with a good browser, a debugger, an object explorer, an interactive workspace, a profiler, a type analyser etc). Having an IDE could have helped you here in that real IDEs can do better than grep.<BR/><BR/>The appDict thing is evil, though. (Although actually, even here, a real IDE would help, in that you could use the object explorer to examine a real appDict at runtime.)Tony Garnock-Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00433430495816900315noreply@blogger.com