split into multiple files?

[lenscas]

Currently battlebot.py is pretty large. Maybe we should give some things their own file? I personally was thinking of moving the help dictionary to its own file(s) as it is currently spanning from line 1713 to 2062. Some other candidates are

• the various classes that we use. (They are classes, and some kind of big)
• the getReply function (A lot less of a problem then some other things but also kind of big)
• the fetching and writing to the database (Makes it easier to switch databases if we need/want to)
• other things?

Should or shouldn't we do this? Also, if we do start to use multiple files are there other things that need their own file?

[SomeoneElse37]

Yeah, probably not a bad idea. The main reason I didn't do anything like this in the past is that I wasn't entirely clear on how multiple-file programs in Python work. I know in Java, you normally just put each class in its own file, but that's not so much the case in Python (at least, according to the book I learned Python from); and in C/C++, including a header you wrote and including a header in the standard library use different syntax, so I just didn't bother.