PataLib a Pataphysical toolkit for Python

PataLib for Python is a toolkit for implementing pataphysically inspired algorithims.

Outline

The full documentation and site for PataLib can be found at:

https://rpigu-i.github.io/patalib/

This repository contains:

1.) A set of Python classes used for generating Pata-data

2.) Automated doc and fuzz tests

For some background on Patadata see:

https://andrewhugill.com/writings/syzygy_surfer.pdf

Installation

Using Poetry (Recommended)

This project now supports Poetry for dependency management and packaging. To install using Poetry:

# Install the project and its dependencies
poetry install

# Run tests with Poetry
poetry run python test/test_runner.py

Using pip (Traditional)

You can still install using pip and the traditional setup.py:

pip install -e .

Dependencies

Mac user will need to install Xcode first

xcode-select --install

Once installed, please install the latest version of the WordNet data:

python -m nltk.downloader wordnet

Note, you should ensure you have version 3.9.1 or higher installed, as there is a bug in version 3.9 of NLTK which prevents wordnet from loading. See: https://www.nltk.org/news.html

Tests

All tests are written using doctest and hypothesis.

Tests can be run from the command line in several ways:

Using Poetry

poetry run python test/test_runner.py

Using traditional Python

python test/test_runner.py

Direct doctest execution

python -m doctest test/test_runner.py