I mentioned in another comment pylint’s 50 line limit for methods. So I agree - a well written 50 line method is sometimes better than the same code chopped up.

I mentioned in another comment pylint’s 50 line limit for methods. So I agree - a well written 50 line method is sometimes better than the same code chopped up. Although a significant factor is if you chopped it up, would there be multiple callers for the new smaller methods? Because that’s probably better than adding flags to your large method to make it behave differently for different callers, increasing its cyclomatic complexity.