Does anyone use this pattern?:
(a) accept command line parameters if __name__ == "__main__" or
(b) run unittests if no parameters passed
Something like:
if __name__ == "__main__":
if len(sys.argv)==7:
command_line()
else:
unittest.main()
I'm using this pattern with my classes, as a way of touching on both passing arguments from the command line (with nod to argparse for POSIX compliance), and self-contained testing.
Maybe this would be better with doctest instead. I could do another version....
Example:
https://github.com/4dsolutions/Python5/blob/master/tetravolume.py