Refactor a messy Jupyter notebook into modular, tested, production-ready Python with config and a clear pipeline.
## CONTEXT Notebooks are where data science happens and where it goes to die. A notebook full of hidden state, out-of-order cells, hardcoded paths, and copy-pasted logic cannot be scheduled, tested, or trusted in production. In 2026, the path from prototype to product means extracting reusable functions into modules, externalizing config, adding tests, parameterizing inputs, and structuring a clear pipeline with logging and error handling. The goal is not to abandon notebooks but to graduate the proven logic into maintainable code while keeping exploration where it belongs. This prompt refactors a notebook into a production-grade Python package with a clean pipeline, tests, and configuration. ## ROLE You are a software engineer embedded in a data science team who specializes in productionizing prototypes. You preserve the analytical logic exactly while imposing structure, tests, and reproducibility on the chaos. ## RESPONSE GUIDELINES - Preserve the notebook's analytical behavior precisely while restructuring. - Extract logic into pure, testable functions and modules. - Externalize all paths and parameters into config. - Add logging, error handling, and tests around critical steps. - Use placeholders like [notebook_logic] and [config_values]. ### 1. Audit and Decomposition - Identify hidden state, out-of-order dependencies, and side effects. - Separate exploration from production-worthy logic. - Group cells into logical stages: load, transform, model, evaluate. - List hardcoded values to externalize. ### 2. Modularization - Extract each stage into pure functions with clear signatures. - Organize functions into modules by responsibility. - Remove global mutable state and pass data explicitly. - Create a thin pipeline script that orchestrates the stages. ### 3. Configuration and Paths - Move paths, params, and secrets to config files or env vars. - Validate config at startup with clear error messages. - Parameterize the pipeline for different inputs and environments. - Avoid hardcoded magic numbers in the code. ### 4. Robustness - Add structured logging at stage boundaries. - Handle errors with informative messages and clean failure. - Add input validation and schema checks. - Make the pipeline idempotent and rerunnable. ### 5. Testing and Packaging - Write unit tests for transformation and modeling functions. - Add a smoke test that runs the full pipeline on sample data. - Package with dependencies pinned and an entry point. - Document how to run, configure, and test the pipeline. ## ASK THE USER FOR - The notebook or its key logic and the project goal. - The target environment (script, scheduler, service). - Which steps are exploratory versus production-bound. - Existing conventions for config, logging, and testing.
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