Session 9 - (2/18)

Icebreaker question

• If you're on an outing, how many owls would you have to see before you got suspicious?

Learning objectives

In this session we will learn about 'scripting' which means creating executable python code that can be run at the command line, like other CLI programs. By the end of this session you will be more familiar with the following topics:

• How to structure a python script
• The __main__ keyword
• Using argparse to read command line arguments
• Logging script processes

Review and Discussion

Review homework assignments:

• WF model as a python class
• Revisiting the Iris data w/ numpy/padas

In class exercises

• 9.0 Scripting tutorial

Assignments

• Read the python argparse tutorial
• 9.1 Scripting the WF model

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