Refactoring: Python server script episode 1 – intro

Summary

The first video in the Python Server refactor series where we discuss the project and get started with the preliminary tasks.

Heres what we did:

• Looked at architecture and other project information
• Got project into version control, set up Git repository
  • Dealt with line endings issue
  • Deal with trailing whitespace issue (see links)
• Initial assessment of the code
  • Found global scope code issues
  • Found inconsistent formatting of code
  • Found massive ball-of-mud object with tons of instance variable
  • Found instance variables that really should be constants

Links:

• https://github.com/bronson/vim-trailing-whitespace

Please do feel free to ask any questions in the comments section!