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| Total Lines | 58 | 
| Code Lines | 32 | 
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| Ratio | 48.28 % | 
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Small methods make your code easier to understand, in particular if combined with a good name. Besides, if your method is small, finding a good name is usually much easier.
For example, if you find yourself adding comments to a method's body, this is usually a good sign to extract the commented part to a new method, and use the comment as a starting point when coming up with a good name for this new method.
Commonly applied refactorings include:
If many parameters/temporary variables are present:
| 1 | # Copyright (c) 2017 CorpNewt  | 
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| 76 | def checkNameForInt(name, server):  | 
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| 77 | theList = name.split()  | 
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| 78 | # We see if we have multiple parts split by a space  | 
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| 79 | if len(theList)<2:  | 
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| 80 | # Only one part - no int included (or not separated by space)  | 
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| 81 | # Check if member exists - and if not throw an error, if so, throw a diff error  | 
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| 82 | amember = memberForName(name, server)  | 
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| 83 | View Code Duplication | if amember:  | 
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| 84 | # We at least have a member  | 
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| 85 |             return { "Member" : amember, "Int" : None } | 
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| 86 | else:  | 
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| 87 | # Now we check if we got an ID instead  | 
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| 88 | # Get just the numbers  | 
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| 89 | memID = ''.join(list(filter(str.isdigit, name)))  | 
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| 90 | newMem = memberForID(memID, server)  | 
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| 91 | if newMem:  | 
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| 92 | # We FOUND it!  | 
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| 93 |                 return { "Member" : newMem, "Int" : None } | 
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| 94 | else:  | 
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| 95 | # Nothing was right about this...  | 
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| 96 |                 return { "Member" : None, "Int" : None } | 
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| 97 | try:  | 
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| 98 | # Let's cast the last item as an int and catch any exceptions  | 
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| 99 | theInt = int(theList[len(theList)-1])  | 
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| 100 | newMemberName = " ".join(theList[:-1])  | 
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| 101 | amember = memberForName(newMemberName, server)  | 
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| 102 | if amember:  | 
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| 103 |             return { "Member" : amember, "Int" : theInt } | 
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| 104 | else:  | 
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| 105 | # Now we check if we got an ID instead  | 
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| 106 | # Get just the numbers  | 
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| 107 | memID = ''.join(list(filter(str.isdigit, newMemberName)))  | 
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| 108 | newMem = memberForID(memID, server)  | 
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| 109 | if newMem:  | 
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| 110 | # We FOUND it!  | 
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| 111 |                 return { "Member" : newMem, "Int" : theInt } | 
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| 112 | else:  | 
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| 113 | # Nothing was right about this...  | 
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| 114 |                 return { "Member" : None, "Int" : None } | 
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| 115 | except ValueError:  | 
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| 116 | # Last section wasn't an int  | 
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| 117 | amember = memberForName(name, server)  | 
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| 118 | View Code Duplication | if amember:  | 
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| 119 | # Name was just a member - return  | 
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| 120 |             return { "Member" : amember, "Int" : None } | 
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| 121 | else:  | 
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| 122 | # Now we check if we got an ID instead  | 
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| 123 | # Get just the numbers  | 
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| 124 | memID = ''.join(list(filter(str.isdigit, name)))  | 
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| 125 | newMem = memberForID(memID, server)  | 
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| 126 | if newMem:  | 
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| 127 | # We FOUND it!  | 
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| 128 |                 return { "Member" : newMem, "Int" : None } | 
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| 129 | else:  | 
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| 130 | # Nothing was right about this...  | 
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| 131 |                 return { "Member" : None, "Int" : None } | 
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| 132 | # Should never get here  | 
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| 133 | return None  | 
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