Well actually there was an interesting tool i discovered, Lumpy . http://www.greenteapress.com/thinkpython/swampy/lumpy.html which was developed with the intention of being a teaching tool. Although it would be a nice idea if the people in this list evaluate it and give their response because I as a beginner don't think can comment on its effectiveness.
On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 6:17 AM, Alan Gauld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > > "amit sethi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > > Can somebody tell me about any python to UML reverse engineering tools . >> > > I can't help wit the specific but I can give a word of caution on > reverse engineering from code to UML - don't expect too much! > > The problem is that in a dynamic language it is very hard > for the reverse engineering to determine types of attributes > etc so everything tends to end up pointing at object - the > common superclass. That results in class diagrams that > are less than meaningful and an unreadable mess of > spaghetti pointing to one place. > > Actually this tends to happen even on well designed > static language programs too since most OOP interrfaces > should be defined in terms of superclasses. UML to code > works well because the designer controls the connectivity > in the diagram, code to UML tends to be less successful > in my experience (Lisp, Smalltalk and C++) and leaves > almost as much work as manually reverse engineering. > > However if you do find something that works please > let us know! > > -- > Alan Gauld > Author of the Learn to Program web site > http://www.freenetpages.co.uk/hp/alan.gauld > > _______________________________________________ > Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor > -- A-M-I-T S|S
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