lisa-lab/pylearn — Issue #66: Figure out how to do automatic refactoring and document it
Author: goodfeli
Created: 2012-03-03 16:22:13+00:00
State: open

We get lots of bugs from refactoring. Partly this is an inevitable consequence of using python, but some things should still be more automatable.

Pascal Lamblin and Guillaume think Eclipse might be able to do some automatic refactoring for python. Also, Yan Dauphin has heard good things about an IDE called pycharm. I got our team an open source developer license for pycharm.

If someone would like to try out a few IDEs, figure out how well they work for automating common annoying tasks like renaming a class, it'd probably be really helpful to start a page in the doc describing which IDEs are recommended and how to set them up to work with pylearn.