If I have two functions that I repeatedly use back-to-back, should I wrap those functions inside a new one? For example, I have:

def prepare_data(data):
  # do a few lines of data prep
  return prepared_data

def process_data(prepared_data):
  # do a few lines of processing
  return result

These two functions always run one after the other. In fact, if I see process_data without prepare_data in front of it, it’s a bug. I call these functions several times throughout my codebase. Given this, is it a good design to create a wrapper function that calls both of them? Like so:

def prepare_and_process_data(data):
  prepared_data = prepare_data(data)
  result = process_data(prepared_data)
  return result

This way I’m just calling one function throughout the codebase.