A bunch of short scripts that illustrate some of how python works
This is the result of me trying to figure out how this works. kwargs_example.py
This is meant to simulate creating dictionaries for two anti-mosquito interventions: A killing-only intervention (Maybe a bugspray, maybe a flyswatter) A blocking-and-killing intervention (Maybe an insecticide treated bednet, maybe just a blanket)
Either of these interventions would have a start day (the day the intervention first comes into play) and a coverage (percent of people using the intervention). Additionally, either of these interventions might have an insecticide, but wouldn't need one.A
This allows me to play with calling a simple method like killing_intervention() and pass any of the above parameters, but not implement the coverage and start day stuff for both.
If you run the script at the command line, it simply creates a bunch of these dictionaries and writes them to console.
test_kwargs.py
If you run the tests in test_kwargs.py, it will show test the functionality and show that it does what I think it should. Additionally, this test file shows some neat testing tricks that you may find helpful:
- use a setUpClass method to create a bunch of data to test against
- reusable methods to check the same thing in multiple tests: verify_default_parent_params() and verify_default_blocker_params()
- use an is_debugging property to write some Debug files to disk if you have trouble. See:
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- setUp() sets an is_debugging property to False for all tests
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- test_blocker_sets_local() for an example of turning on is_debbuging here
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- tearDown() checks to see if is_debbuging is enabled
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- write_iv_to_disk() generates a file with a name unique to the test method, and writes it to disk