On Apr 30, 10:47 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > A rather off-topic and perhaps naive question, but isn't a 1:4 > > production/test ratio a bit too much ? Is there a guesstimate of what > > percentage of this test code tests for things that you would get for > > free in a statically typed language ? I'm just curious whether this > > argument against dynamic typing - that you end up doing the job of a > > static compiler in test code - holds in practice. > > > George > > To me it seems like more of an argument for a (more) concise Test > Framework for Python, or at least a fully fledge IDE beyond pyDev.
You could just as easily argue that it shows the power of Python: something that contains so much functionality that it requires 120 000 lines to test completely needs only 30 000 lines to implement! :-) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
