In the Designing scripts for composition recipe, we looked at an application that produced a YAML file with the raw output of a simulation in it. In this recipe, we'll look at an application that consumes that raw data and produces some statistical summaries. We'll call this application overview_stats.py.
Following the design pattern of separating the input, output, and processing, we'll have an application main() that looks something like this:
def main():
options = get_options(sys.argv[1:])
if options.output is not None:
report_path = Path(options.output)
with report_path.open('w') as result_file:
process_all_files(result_file, options.file)
else:
process_all_files(sys.stdout, options.file)
This function will get the options ...
