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| author | Steve Losh <steve@stevelosh.com> |
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| date | Tue, 08 Feb 2011 21:17:13 -0500 |
| parents | cfd5d659d737 |
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Bicycle Repair Man - a Python Refactoring Browser ================================================= Copyright (c) 2000 by Shae Erisson <shae@lapland.fi> Copyright (c) 2001-3 by Phil Dawes <pdawes@users.sourceforge.net> All rights reserved, see COPYING for details. $Id: README,v 1.7 2003/08/24 19:48:43 pdawes Exp $ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bicycle Repair Man is the Python Refactoring Browser, helping Pythonistas everywhere glide over the gory details of refactoring their code. Watch him extract jumbled code into well ordered classes. Gasp, as he renames all occurrences of a method. Thank You, Bicycle Repair Man! execute ./testall.py to run all the tests see INSTALL for installation instructions (uses distutils). see README.idle, README.emacs etc.. for instructions on how to integrate bicyclerepairman into supported IDEs. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- What's Python? Python is a programming language. To find out more about it, go to the Python Homepage at http://www.python.org/ What's a Refactoring Browser? A Refactoring Browser is an editor that automates Refactorings. The first Refactoring Browser was written by Dr. Don Roberts and Dr. John Brant at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champagne. Dr. Don Roberts wrote his Ph.D. thesis on the design and implementation of the Refactoring Browser. For more detail, read the aforementioned thesis at http://st-www.cs.uiuc.edu/~droberts/thesis.pdf What's a Refactoring? A Refactoring is a behaviour preserving change to source code. Some Refactorings are RenameVariable, RenameClass, RenameMethod, PullUpMethod, and PushDownVariable. Lots of people say it's very easy to just type a different name in where your class, method, or variable is defined. That's not always a refactoring though. The Refactoring Browser is smart enough to rename every reference to your class, method or variable. If you've ever renamed a variable and broken classes in widely scattered parts of your system, you might be happier using a Refactoring Browser. A Refactoring Browser operates on any of method, function, class, or variable. It can add, delete, rename, move up down or sideways, inline and abstract. There are some operations that are specific to one of the three types, such as abstracting a variable into accessors, or turing several lines of code into a separate method. For more information on Refactoring, check out the websites of Martin Fowler at http://www.martinfowler.com/ and his Refactoring Site at http://www.refactoring.com/ . Why Bicycle Repair Man? The Bicycle Repair Man was a superhero in a Monty Python skit, his special power was repairing bicycles.