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This week, I noticed that some functions in my static site generator (SSG) were hardcoded with complex logic and "magic values", so I decided to focus on refactoring them. Without cleaning them up, maintaining them would be a tragedy. For instance, there was a function spanning 36 lines of code with 8 if/elif statements. Some of the statements even have nested if/elif statements themselves. You can find the function referenced in this issue.
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To resolve the above issue, I thought the best approach was to avoid reinventing the wheel and save myself hours of debugging: use a third-party library. After implementing a Python implementation of John Gruber’s Markdown, 36 lines of code were cut down to a single function call. I've not benchmarked my SSG after the change, but in terms of code readability, it's certainly worth the overhead caused by the library.
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