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I thought writing my own functions was a waste of time
For months, I just copied and pasted the same few lines of code over and over in my Python scripts. My friend pointed out a 50-line script I wrote that could be just 10 lines with one function. Seeing that side-by-side finally clicked for me. Anyone have a good example of a simple function that saved them a ton of typing?
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andrew_shah7h ago
Yeah I was the same way, always telling myself it wasn't worth the extra step. What got me was formatting dates for my kids' school calendars. I had this ugly block of code repeating strftime stuff a dozen times. Wrapping it in one function called clean_date() cut out so much clutter and fixed my mistakes in one spot.
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tessalane9h ago
My roofing estimates used to be a mess of repeated math. Wrote a tiny function that takes square footage and pitch, spits out material costs. Went from checking the same calculator fifty times to one clean line of code. Feels like cheating now.
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