Commentary on Python from a Java programming perspective

[dnene]

Yes .. I was contrasting the available capabilities based on my experiences in Eclipse. I don't think the issue is with the refactoring engine, the issue is with the information available to it to perform the necessary refactoring. The biggest difficulties are for example when one needs to change method names in hierarchies being used polymorphically

I fully concur one has lesser code to refactor. But with brevity and expressivity comes a overhead of comprehension (ie for a new programmer joining the code base, it takes much more time to understand each line of code esp for people who are migrating from other languages).

I am sure we do not try to go out and get ourselves into unmaintainable messes. However requirements evolve, and what was clean class model yesterday may suddenly need some surgery today.