Handy utilities = Friday Filosofical Finking

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On Fri, Mar 29, 2019, 2:04 AM DL Neil <PythonList at danceswithmice.info>
wrote:

> How do you keep, use, and maintain those handy snippets, functions,
> classes... - units of code, which you employ over-and-over again?
>
>
> Having coded 'stuff' once, most of us will keep units of code,
> "utilities", which we expect will be useful in-future (DRY principle),
> eg functions to rename files, choose unique back-up/new fileNMs,
> accessing a DB, journalling (logging) start/stop msgs, building specs
> from YAML/JSON/XML/.ini config files (tongue~cheek), etc.
>
> Do you 'keep' these, or perhaps next time you need something you've
> 'done before' do you remember when/where a technique was last
> used/burrow into 'history'?
> (else, code it from scratch, all over again)
>
> How do you keep them updated, ie if add some new idea, better
> err-checking, re-factor - how to add these 'back' into previous places
> utility is used?
> (who wants more "technical debt", plus handling classic
> update/versioning issue)
>
> How do you keep these? eg special file/dir, within IDE, leave in app and
> 'remember', on paper, ... If the former, how do you access/import them
> from the various applications/systems?
> (Python's import rules and restrictions, change control/version control)
>
>
> Am interested to hear your tactics; to learn, compare, and contrast...
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> =dn
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