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{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"Argument Clinic: split out global stateless helpers and constants from clinic.py","articleBody":"# Feature or enhancement\n\n`clinic.py` has a lot of globals in various forms. Getting rid of the globals will make it possible to split out `clinic.py` in multiple files (https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/113299). Combined, this will impact readability and maintainability of Argument Clinic in a positive way.\n\nMost globals can be easily dealt with. We can structure them into two groups:\n- global constants that are not mutated\n- stateless helper functions and classes\n\nIt can make sense split out some of these in separate files (for example a libclinic package, as suggested in #113309). For some globals, it makes more sense to embed them into one of the existing classes (for example the global `version` variable clearly belongs in `DSLParser`).\n\nSuggesting to start with the following:\n\n- move stateless text accumulator helpers into a `Tools/clinic/libclinic/accumulators.py` file\n- move stateless text formatting helpers into a `Tools/clinic/libclinic/formatters.py` file\n- move `version` into `DSLParser` and version helper into a `Tools/clinic/libclinic/version.py` file\n\n\u003c!-- gh-linked-prs --\u003e\n### Linked PRs\n* gh-113402\n* gh-113413\n* gh-113414\n* gh-113438\n* gh-113525\n* gh-113986\n* gh-114066\n* gh-114319\n* gh-114324\n* gh-114330\n* gh-114752\n* gh-115369\n* gh-115370\n* gh-115371\n* gh-115510\n* gh-115513\n* gh-115517\n* gh-115518\n* gh-115520\n* gh-115522\n* gh-116770\n* gh-116807\n* gh-116819\n* gh-116821\n* gh-116836\n* gh-116853\n* gh-117315\n* gh-117451\n* gh-117455\n* gh-117513\n* gh-117533\n* gh-117624\n* gh-117626\n* gh-117707\n\u003c!-- /gh-linked-prs --\u003e\n","author":{"url":"https://github.com/erlend-aasland","@type":"Person","name":"erlend-aasland"},"datePublished":"2023-12-20T12:45:15.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":8},"url":"https://github.com/113317/cpython/issues/113317"}