Software Architecture with Python

Refactoring code

Now that we have seen how static checkers can be used to report a wide range of errors and issues in our Python code, let's do a simple exercise of refactoring our code. We will take our poorly written metric test module as the use case (the first version of it) and perform a few refactoring steps.

Here are the rough guidelines to follow when refactoring software:

1. Fix complex code first: This will get a lot of code out of the way as typically, when a complex piece of code is refactored, we end up reducing the number of lines of code. This overall improves the code quality and reduces code smells. You may be creating new functions or classes here, so it always helps to perform this step first.
2. Do an analysis of the code: It is a good ...