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  • If the method does a long thing, the keep it long. I do a lot of data analysis and simulation, and so often people who came before had this urge to shorten methods, so we get:

    def do_calculation(N, X, y, z, a, b, c):
        # Setup stuff
        for i in range(N):
            calclation(X[i], y, z, a, b, c)`
    

    Sometimes there’s a place for that, like if calculation could be swapped for a different function, or if calculation is used all over the program. It’s a pretty good clue that something is up though when the signatures are almost identical. Of course, that has just led to people writing:

    def do_calculation(big_struct):
        read_data(big_struct)
        calculate(big_struct)
        write_data(big_struct)