Hit 1000 lines of Python before realizing my whole approach was wrong

I spent like 2 months building a script to sort my music files. Got to 1000 lines and felt proud. Then a guy on Reddit showed me I could do the same thing in 50 lines using os.walk and shutil. It stung bad but taught me to ask for feedback way earlier. Anyone else hit a big milestone just to find out you were overcomplicating everything?

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noah_rivera571mo ago

Is it really that big of a deal though? You learned something either way, and 1000 lines of code is still 1000 lines of code (even if it's janky).

logan_dixon181mo ago

Man, @noah_rivera57 i feel you on that. Sometimes the messy stuff teaches you way more than the clean code ever could, right? It's all part of the grind.