📅 2023-10-02 — Session: Refactored Python Functions for Improved Reusability

🕒 13:15–15:50
🏷️ Labels: Python, Refactoring, Code Organization, Data Analysis, Error Handling
📂 Project: Dev
⭐ Priority: MEDIUM

Session Goal:

The session focused on improving the modularity and reusability of Python code, specifically by refactoring functions and organizing code within notebooks and Python files.

Key Activities:

  • Explored common keyboard shortcuts for commenting in Markdown editors.
  • Provided insights and suggestions for organizing and documenting notebooks to enhance modularity and optimization.
  • Outlined a modular structure for a data analysis project, detailing the organization of code into logical units.
  • Addressed Python ImportError and NameError issues, providing troubleshooting steps and solutions.
  • Conducted code review and suggested improvements for data loading functions.
  • Recommended documentation practices for census sample code.
  • Discussed refactoring strategies for Python functions to enhance readability and reusability by passing global variables as arguments.
  • Proposed the extraction and adaptation of functions to a separate Python file, funciones.py, to improve code organization.
  • Detailed a workflow for data collection and processing of socioeconomic statistics in Argentina.

Achievements:

  • Successfully refactored functions to improve code clarity and reusability.
  • Enhanced the organization of code in notebooks and Python files.
  • Provided a structured guide for handling common Python errors.

Pending Tasks:

  • Further testing of the refactored functions to ensure compatibility and functionality within the existing codebase.
  • Implementation of suggested documentation improvements in census sample code.