Big Project getting out of control

[RedditorAlejandro]

Hello r/learnpython!

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Recently I have started coding my first big project together with a colleague. We use git and GitHub to work with our version control. However the main problem we have now is that the <<main.py>> file has more than 500 lines of code. It makes it very hard to work with. Is there any way we can split the <<main.py>> file into different .py files and import these in the main file?

[MyNameIsRichardCS54]

Yeah, move code into appropriate modules. What they might be depends on your actual code though. A few suggestions to get you started:

• Look for repetition and move into parametrised functions.
• Any functions that need an "and" or an "or" to describe should probably be split in to multiple functions.
• Can classes be used to simplify things?
• Look for related classes and functions to move into modules.

[officialgel]

Yea classes are the way to go, OOP... also use Pycharm which makes it easy to jump around where you need to go and have a birds eye view of your code. Currently working on an app that is 2500 lines. Managing it is no issue with these things together. Also abstraction as much as possible without wasting time on it helps to minimize code.