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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:
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| 68 | def recursive_merge_dicts(base_config, extra_config):  | 
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| 69 | """  | 
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| 70 | recursively merge two dictionaries.  | 
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| 71 | Entries in extra_config override entries in base_config. The built-in  | 
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| 72 | update function cannot be used for hierarchical dicts.  | 
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| 74 | Also for the case when there is a list of dicts involved, one has to be  | 
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| 75 | more careful. The extra_config may have longer list of dicts as compared  | 
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| 76 | with the base_config, in which case, the extra items are simply added to  | 
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| 77 | the merged final list.  | 
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| 79 | Combined here are 2 options from SO.  | 
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| 81 | See:  | 
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| 82 | http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3232943/update-value-of-a-nested-dictionary-of-varying-depth/3233356#3233356  | 
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| 83 | and also  | 
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| 84 | https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3232943/update-value-of-a-nested-dictionary-of-varying-depth/18394648#18394648  | 
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| 86 | Parameters  | 
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| 87 | ----------  | 
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| 88 | base_config : dict  | 
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| 89 | dictionary to be merged  | 
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| 90 | extra_config : dict  | 
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| 91 | dictionary to be merged  | 
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| 92 | Returns  | 
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| 93 | -------  | 
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| 94 | final_config : dict  | 
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| 95 | merged dict  | 
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| 96 | """  | 
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| 97 | final_config = base_config.copy()  | 
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| 99 | for key, value in extra_config.items():  | 
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| 100 | if key in final_config and isinstance(final_config[key], list):  | 
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| 101 | new_config = []  | 
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| 103 | for key_, value_ in zip(final_config[key], value, strict=False):  | 
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| 104 |                 key_ = recursive_merge_dicts(key_ or {}, value_) | 
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| 105 | new_config.append(key_)  | 
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| 107 | # For example moving from a smaller list of model parameters to a  | 
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| 108 | # longer list.  | 
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| 109 | if len(final_config[key]) < len(extra_config[key]):  | 
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| 110 | for value_ in value[len(final_config[key]) :]:  | 
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| 111 | new_config.append(value_)  | 
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| 112 | final_config[key] = new_config  | 
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| 114 | elif key in final_config and isinstance(final_config[key], dict):  | 
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| 115 |             final_config[key] = recursive_merge_dicts(final_config.get(key) or {}, value) | 
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| 116 | else:  | 
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| 117 | final_config[key] = value  | 
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| 119 | return final_config  | 
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