Making an app tidy and clean

Question

I almost done building a program -biology related. - that runs from the command line
And the code is getting too messy and repetitive that i am not sure how to refactor it ,
How would you approach such a program in order to make it easy to read for other programers , how does determine what functions to turn into classes what functions can be taken into pieces and so on

Answer 1

I'm not a JetBrains fan but try to open it with PyCharm, install SonarQube plug-in....
I'm not a vscode fan but try to open with it and install SonarQube plug-in....

or open with VSCodium, and install SonarLint (I'm using VSCodium)

Answer 2

Mihaly Nyilas thanks i will try it
, also what makes you a fan of VSCodium i tried the two other options above never tried the one you use i will give it a try when i can , i read about it for now it seems like its spyware free , less computer heavy does not have microsoft extentions ( which i do not use anyways so not a plus or minus )

Answer 3

VSCodium does not steal data, telemetry options are disabled by default

Answer 4

Dareen Moughrabi You might try creating a flow chart on paper.

If trying to convert your project into object-oriented design, focus first on the data and how it might be grouped into objects which then interact with each other.

With biology related project, maybe you can group data by organisms, organ systems, individual organs, types of cells, or nutrients/molecule transmitters.

Once you have the data divided into classes/objects, you can turn the interactions between them into methods.

For any sections of code which are highly repetitive, maybe you can turn that into helper functions called by other functions.
Similar to how sort methods handle the logic of sorting but use helper function to do the actual data swapping.

Answer 5

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