atbrandt
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3 years ago This information is already included in main.py, which is only ~120 lines. It includes the bot token, the default command prefix, the list of cogs enabled (which is all of them by default), the default guild and user information, and a few global functions essential to basic bot functionality. There are definitely ways to make this even more explicit, e.g. by entirely separating them from the code entirely, but there are far more important cleanups to preform first, like reducing the size of the actual cogs themselves (some of which are nearing the 1000-lines range).
As for global variables, there shouldn't be any outside of absolute requirements like the instance of the Bot and the token that enables communication with the Discord API. Everything else is designed to be done in a self-contained manner and async so as to not cause massive failure if an error occurs or connection is lost. Each command within a given cog has an input and an output and often pulls information from the database, and that's more or less all it does.
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It’s hard to check exactly which cogs are loaded and what global variables
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Looking through the entire code... kinda boring ngl
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