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From: Devin Jeanpierre <jeanpierreda@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2012 14:51:30 -0500
Subject: Re: Constraints -//- first release -//- Flexible abstract class based validation for attributes, functions and code blocks
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Ooh, runtime turing-complete dependent-types. :)

I'm not sure if you're aware of the literature on this sort of thing.
It's nice reading. A library such as this that's designed for it could
be used for static checks as well.

Probably deserves a better name than "constraintslib", that makes one
think of constraint satisfaction.

On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 2:36 PM, Nathan Rice
<nathan.alexander.rice@gmail.com> wrote:
> Design by contract style preconditions, postconditions and invariants are also
> supported, and can be used either as context managers or function decorators::

Any way to get them to raise a different error, such as ValueError (in
particular for preconditions)?

-- Devin