> >> > 1. Automated Refactoring Tools > > >> I wish. > > > Why? I've never seen the appeal of these. I do plenty of refactoring. > > It's unclear to me what assistance an automated tool would provide.
> I've often wanted something that would help globally change > things like function and method names including across multiple > files. Even variable names in large functions (ideally functions > should be small enough that this is not a problem but sometime > shit happens). I am not great at picking good names to begin > with and often code drift makes them even worse with time. > Editor search and replace doesn't cut it. I have occasionally used Bicycle Repair Man for this kind of thing. I don't actually know if it works across files, and I never quite convinced myself that it really works faithfully at all, but you could always try it (and even improve it if you can): http://bicyclerepair.sourceforge.net/#overallidea -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
