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Re:Open-sourcing MonkeyType – Let your Python code type-hint... by user5994461 on Thursday December 21, 2017 @06:43PM (#15983959)
>>> but navigating a million lines of Python seems just daunting to me (although maybe I'm just not experienced enough with Python).

It's not that bad.

The first thing you learn when you're in a million lines codebase is that you will only work within your project of maybe a hundred files.

Once in a while, there is a guy who is asking for help on his project or there is an old weird bug to fix and you dive in other stuff. Otherwise, it's like it's not there.

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Re:Open-sourcing MonkeyType – Let your Python code type-hint... by AlexCoventry on Friday December 22, 2017 @12:08AM (#15985394)
Sounds like the projects you worked on had excellent encapsulation.
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Re:Open-sourcing MonkeyType – Let your Python code type-hint... by user5994461 on Friday December 22, 2017 @07:09PM (#15991983)
I wouldn't say excellent encapsulation. It's just normal to use sub directories to split things. The project was over ten millions lines of python.
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Re:Open-sourcing MonkeyType – Let your Python code type-hint... by AlexCoventry on Sunday December 24, 2017 @04:26PM (#16001368)
Subdirectory structure is sort of orthogonal to the issue of encapsulation. It's more about providing API's and clean abstractions which prevent incidental interactions between implementation details across module boundaries.
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