I am looking to start using DBC on a large number of Python-based projects at work and am wondering what experiences others have had with it. So far my research turned up the following: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0316/ - PEP 316 that is supposed to standardize design by contract for Python which has been deferred. This PEP suggests using docstrings. http://www.wayforward.net/pycontract/ - Contracts for Python. This seems to be a complete, but unmaintained framework using docstrings. http://www.nongnu.org/pydbc/ - PyDBC which implements contracts using metaclasses. Also unmaintained for a few years. My questions are: have you used DBC with Python for mature production code? How well did it work/was it worth the effort? Which tools would you recommend? Continue reading...
