Understanding a codebase [duplicate]

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How do you dive into large code bases? 31 answers

What kind of practices should one employ to increase his understanding of a codebase.

I will be a bit more specific and narrow down the question to the domain of an application that includes asynchronous jobs, python, celery, mysql, sqlalchemy and flask.

It's a code base that creates reports basically.

I would like to have a better understanding of the codebase.

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