Jorge Vargas wrote: > well after all it's a function so the only ways you can get things out > of it are: > - return a dict with all the objects > - use global (very messy) > - use a decorator to do either of the above.
Messy, all of those... :(. > on the other hand have you consider using a proper test package? > instead of inspecting the objects manually from the shell you could > make it all automatic. with assert statements. you could use the std. > python testing modules http://docs.python.org/lib/development.html or > something less verbosed like nose Usually, I'm using standard Python testing modules, but sometimes that is just an overkill. Sometimes I like to do 'exploratory programming', especially in the early phases of development - create a bunch of objects I want to play with and do that from IPython. Only way I found out to somewhat automate this procedure is to have a function that creates all of the test objects, and then raises an exception at the end. IPython starts ipdb, so I can work with the objects the function created (without copying them back to the shell). But this somehow looks too hack-ish for me, so I was wondering if there was an alternative... Anyway, thanks for your answer ;). -- Karlo Lozovina -- Mosor -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
