Quoting Paul Rubin <"http://phr.cx"@NOSPAM.invalid>:
> Often, the Python program crashes halfway through, even though I > tested it on a few megabytes of data before starting the full > multi-gigabyte run, because it hit some unexpected condition in the > data that could have been prevented with more compile time checking > that made sure the structures understood by the one-off script matched > the ones in the program that generated the input data. Wait, do you _really_ believe that _static_ checks could prevent problems arising from _unexpected_ conditions in the _data_? -- Luis Zarrabeitia Facultad de Matemática y Computación, UH http://profesores.matcom.uh.cu/~kyrie -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list