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RE: Diagramming code

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You leave many relevant questions unanswered.

1. Is the original developer/team available or have you been left with
the code and little or no doc's?

2. How big is big in terms of the number of files/modules in the
project?  

3. Is there a reasonable structure to the project in terms of
directories and a meaningful hierarchy

4. Does the project currently work and you just have to maintain/enhance
it or was it "abandoned" by the original team in an unknown state and
you have to save a sinking ship?

5. Are you an experienced Python programmer or a beginner.

6. Is the original code "pythonic" (i.e. clean and simple with brief,
well organized methods) or do you have functions over 50 lines of code
with multiple nested control statements and meaningless variable names?

7. Is there any documentation that defines what it should do and how it
should do it.  i.e. how do you know when it's working?

These issues are not really Python specific, but if you've been given a
"broken" project that has 200 poorly organized modules and little or no
documentation and no access to the original team, a good first step
would be to update your resume ;)

OK then, let me ask, how do you guys learn/understand large projects ?

hamilton

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Diagramming code hamilton <hamilton@nothere.com> - 2012-07-15 19:26 -0600
  Re: Diagramming code Chris Rebert <clp2@rebertia.com> - 2012-07-15 18:38 -0700
    Re: Diagramming code hamilton <hamilton@nothere.com> - 2012-07-15 19:57 -0600
      Re: Diagramming code Chris Rebert <clp2@rebertia.com> - 2012-07-15 19:13 -0700
      Re: Diagramming code Ulrich Eckhardt <ulrich.eckhardt@dominolaser.com> - 2012-07-16 09:58 +0200
        Re: Diagramming code Joel Goldstick <joel.goldstick@gmail.com> - 2012-07-16 05:00 -0400
      RE: Diagramming code "Sells, Fred" <fred.sells@adventistcare.org> - 2012-07-16 13:02 -0400
        Re: Diagramming code hamilton <hamilton@nothere.com> - 2012-07-16 12:36 -0600
      Re: Diagramming code Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2012-07-16 13:51 -0400
    Re: Diagramming code 88888 Dihedral <dihedral88888@googlemail.com> - 2012-07-17 07:11 -0700
    Re: Diagramming code 88888 Dihedral <dihedral88888@googlemail.com> - 2012-07-17 07:11 -0700
  Re: Diagramming code Miki Tebeka <miki.tebeka@gmail.com> - 2012-07-16 12:47 -0700
  Re: Diagramming code Andrea Crotti <andrea.crotti.0@gmail.com> - 2012-07-16 21:41 +0100
    Re: Diagramming code Andrew Cooper <amc96@cam.ac.uk> - 2012-07-16 23:24 +0100

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