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Python programing general question about structure?
When i write something in python i find that it is many lines of control flow statements, comments, variable declartion etc. There are harldy any functions and none of my own modules are being imported. Its just a wall of code it seems. How is the best way to structure code in terms of breaking up control loops and functions into seperate modules and importing them into a main program? Should a main program just be made up of functions, that rely on imported modules? Is there someplace where i see some extensive code written in a nice way?
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- PoohBearPenguinLv 73 years agoFavorite Answer
There is no single format to follow. It highly depends on what the purpose of the code is.
If it's just a small, single purpose, script then it's fine that you don't have a main function, or any functions at all.
But in general, try to think about how your code might be able to be reused in the future. Say your program needs to perform a task over and over again then it might make sense to make that task into a separate function.
Or if you have a central data structure, and functions that operate on that structure, you might consider making a class, and adding all those functions to your class. Now your program simply needs to declare an instance of that class, and then operate on it. This also gives you further flexibility as you can have 2 separate instances that have their own data.
