[Tutor] question about function inside of function

[Richard D. Moores]

I'm working on a function that seems to cry out for some of its code
to be put in a function. For convenience sake, I've put this new
function inside the one that calls it.

Question 1: Is this bad practice? It works fine that way, but..

Question 2: If the answer to Q1 is no, is there a standard place to
put a function inside of another function? Is it standard to have it
the first line of the function? I've put mine at the point where it
would be called, mainly as a reminder to myself.

An outline of the big function is:

if:
else:
     for loop
         for loop
             if
             elif
                 the function
                 call the function
             else

Thanks,

Dick Moores