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That was an exciting ride! First an if statement that was longer than one would want, then he was splitting things off into small bits and a loop to make it look neat and dynamic, and then it exploded into bullshit and stopped looking like Python altogether.

Guess it happens.

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Complexity tamed! With Products.CustomUserFolder.interfaces.IGSUser.interfaces.IGSAnnouncementGroup.

The irony is that the documentation[1] is now 335 lines.

[1] https://github.com/groupserver/gs.group.member.canpost/blob/...

That's pretty much unavoidable for complex problems.

What you want to do is make sure you don't need another 300 lines to implement that problem, or that if you do, that code is easy to read and to maintain.

It's not a complex problem.

Thought I was the only one who felt this way. It quickly became so bad I lost track of what he was doing originally.

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