Hi Lawrence, I missed your answer because I didn't expect someone to respond after all this time. :-)
On 2010-10-30 04:07, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: >> I'm looking for a tool which can read Python files and write >> a corresponding XMI file for import into UML tools. > > UML ... isn’t that something more in vogue among the > Java/DotNet corporate-code-cutter-drone crowd? I don't know, that may well be. I still find it useful from time to time. I don't mind using tools I find useful, regardless who else uses them. :-) > Specifically, you’re asking for something that can parse a > dynamic language and generate a static structural > description of that code. I don’t think it’s possible, in > general. The tools I described in my previous post go a great length towards extracting the necessary information. But of course it's not reliably possible to extract all information, for example dynamically generated methods. But few Python programs use this extensively, and a good tool will extract most of the information interesting for me. I'm always surprised about what Pylint finds out about my source code. :) Given the existing open source tools, the problem rather seems to be the effort of implementing XMI generation than to get the information out of the Python code in the first place. Stefan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
