Brainstorming Scratchpad

Ideas for PyVows

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This page is for:

• brainstorming ideas that aren’t quite “concrete” enough to get their own issue; or,
• maybe you definitely want Feature X—but there are 2 or 3 ways it might be accomplished, and you want to document the pros and cons of each

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PyVows “scaffolding”

Idea 1: Scaffold for entire project

Issues

• Can this kind of automation generate something that is actually useful?
• There are many ways to organize code.
• There are many ways to organize testing code, too.
• For inspiration, check out Pythoscope, a project dedicated to scanning your source and generating testing code.

Idea 2: Scaffold from templates

• Allow something like pyvows --scaffold > some_vows.py.
• It would save people a lot of copying and pasting
• The generated code could include a few helpful comments to get people started. (It’s always easier to delete a helpful comment that was generated than it is to look up something on http://pyvows.org .)
• Taking this idea further, pyvows --scaffold --template generative > some_vows.py, where generative could be one of a few standard templates. (In this case, the template would include skeleton code for testing a generative testing. )

Hmm…I really like this one! Maybe I’ll open a feature request shortly… ☺