Re: graphical or flow charting design aid for python class development?

2005-09-01 Thread Florian Diesch
William Gill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Being somewhat new to Python, and having a tendency to over complicate > things in my class design, I was wondering if anyone can suggest a > simple graphical or flowcharting tool that they use to organize their > class and program design? Because of a

Re: graphical or flow charting design aid for python class development?

2005-09-01 Thread gene tani
There's also this about giving source/class browsers a hand by sprinkling "isinstance()"'s in http://wingware.com/doc/intro/tutorial-sassist-with-classes I always encourage people to write up their experience/improessions in the python wiki: http://wiki.python.org/moin/PythonEditors (or the sepa

Re: graphical or flow charting design aid for python class development?

2005-09-01 Thread William Gill
Thanks everyone. I will explore all the suggestions, but it looks like SPE is the immediate answer. Bill William Gill wrote: > Being somewhat new to Python, and having a tendency to over complicate > things in my class design, I was wondering if anyone can suggest a > simple graphical or flow

Re: graphical or flow charting design aid for python class development?

2005-09-01 Thread Paul McGuire
It's not free, but it is pretty cheap considering all it can do. Check out Enterprise Architect (with the free add-in for Python) from www.sparxsystems.com.au. Pro version license is US$180 or so, but they may have a student license for less that you could use. -- Paul -- http://mail.python.or

Re: graphical or flow charting design aid for python class development?

2005-08-31 Thread gene tani
forgot mention Komodo's code and object browser, which're both in the $30 license http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/docs/Komodo/3.1/komodo-doc-codeintel.html#codeintel_codebrowser and SPE's supposed to have some kinda class explorer http://www.stani.be/python/spe -- http://mail.python.org/mailma

Re: graphical or flow charting design aid for python class development?

2005-08-31 Thread Michael Ekstrand
On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 15:40:52 GMT William Gill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Being somewhat new to Python, and having a tendency to over > complicate things in my class design, I was wondering if anyone can > suggest a simple graphical or flowcharting tool that they use to > organize their class and

Re: graphical or flow charting design aid for python class development?

2005-08-31 Thread William Gill
On first glance Doxygen doesn't look like the ticket, but the screen shots of Eric3 look VERY promising. I have already downloaded it, and will try it. Thanks, Bill tooper wrote: > You may want to use Doxygen, which generates nice diagrams. It's > normally only for C++, but there are nice filt

Re: graphical or flow charting design aid for python class development?

2005-08-31 Thread William Gill
gene tani wrote: > Have you looked at class browser module? Not the graphical tool you're > looking for, but maybe a good start No, it's not graphical, but it looks like I may be able to use it to put together a nice outline, or summary of my modules. It's worth exploring, thanks. Bill >

Re: graphical or flow charting design aid for python class development?

2005-08-31 Thread gene tani
Have you looked at class browser module? Not the graphical tool you're looking for, but maybe a good start http://www.python.org/doc/2.0.1/lib/module-pyclbr.html William Gill wrote: > Being somewhat new to Python, and having a tendency to over complicate > things in my class design, I was wonder

Re: graphical or flow charting design aid for python class development?

2005-08-31 Thread tooper
You may want to use Doxygen, which generates nice diagrams. It's normally only for C++, but there are nice filters (for ex. http://i31www.ira.uka.de/~baas/pydoxy) that generates C++ header from python code that Doxygen can crunch. Another solution is to use IDE such as Eric3 that can generate UML

graphical or flow charting design aid for python class development?

2005-08-31 Thread William Gill
Being somewhat new to Python, and having a tendency to over complicate things in my class design, I was wondering if anyone can suggest a simple graphical or flowcharting tool that they use to organize their class and program design? Because of a 55 mph head-on accident a few years back, I ha