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This guide provides basic information about setting up a development environment and writing code for the COMPAS framework.

For instructions on how to submit contributions, see Contributions

Installation

• https://pip.pypa.io/en/stable/user_guide
• https://pip.pypa.io/en/stable/reference/pip_install

1. clone repo
2. install from source (dependencies + dev tools)

$ pip install -r requirements-dev.txt

Writing code

• https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/
• https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0020/

Naming conventions

• US English
  • https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Elements_of_Style
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Elements_of_Programming_Style

Package structure

• https://github.com/audreyr/cookiecutter

Module structure

Docstrings

• We use the sphinxcontrib extension Napoleon - Marching towards legible docstrings (https://sphinxcontrib-napoleon.readthedocs.io/en/latest/)
• We prefer Numpy-style docstrings (https://numpydoc.readthedocs.io/en/latest/format.html)

Testing

• We use pytest for writing unit tests

Benchmarking