Hands-On Software Engineering with Python

Code review, refactoring, and cleanup

There are at least a couple of items in the code as it stands right now that could be reviewed and remedied.

So far, there's been no call for any request-response process that would need to simply return any of the data objects. There are, however, methods that were stubbed out to address those potential needs (the various response_{object} methods in ArtisanGatewayDaemon), even though the needs themselves never surfaced. While it doesn't hurt to leave them in place, that would, ultimately, entail having test case classes and/or test methods that are required by the testing policy that don't really serve any purpose. The methods being tested don't do anything, and aren't expected to in the foreseeable ...