dry_template.py

def setup_something():
    # do some kind of setup
    return 1

def finish_doing_something(arg):
    # do something else
    print(str(arg))

def do_work(work):
  val = setup_something()
  return finish_doing_something(work(val))

def some_method_a():
    return do_work(lambda val: 2)

def some_method_b():
    return do_work(lambda val: 3)