Adding the run_axelrod script

Author: drvinceknight

run_axelrod

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+#!/usr/bin/env python
+
+"""A script to run the Axelrod tournament.
+
+The code for strategies is present in `axelrod/strategies`.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import division
+import argparse
+from axelrod import run_tournaments, setup_logging
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(
+        description="Run a recreation of Axelrod's tournament")
+
+    parser.add_argument(
+        '-l', '--logging',
+        type=str,
+        default='console',
+        dest="logging_destination",
+        help='logging (none, console or file)')
+
+    parser.add_argument(
+        '-v', '--verbosity',
+        type=str,
+        default='INFO',
+        help='Logging level. DEBUG, INFO, ERROR or CRITICAL')
+
+    parser.add_argument(
+        '-t',
+        '--turns',
+        type=int,
+        default=200,
+        help='turns per pair')
+
+    parser.add_argument(
+        '-r', '--repetitions',
+        type=int,
+        default=10,
+        help='round-robin repetitions')
+
+    parser.add_argument(
+        '-o', '--output_directory',
+        default='./',
+        help='output directory')
+
+    parser.add_argument(
+        '--xb',
+        "--exclude-basic",
+        action='store_true',
+        dest="exclude_basic",
+        help='exclude basic strategies plot')
+
+    parser.add_argument(
+        '--xs', "--exclude-ordinary",
+        action='store_true',
+        dest="exclude_ordinary",
+        help='exclude ordinary strategies plot')
+
+    parser.add_argument(
+        '--xc', "--exclude-cheating",
+        action='store_true',
+        dest="exclude_cheating",
+        help='exclude cheating strategies plot')
+
+    parser.add_argument(
+        '--xa', "--exclude-combined",
+        action='store_true',
+        dest="exclude_combined",
+        help='exclude combined strategies plot')
+
+    parser.add_argument(
+        '--ne', "--no-ecological",
+        action='store_true',
+        dest="no_ecological",
+        help='no ecological variant')
+
+    parser.add_argument(
+        '-p', '--processes',
+        type=int,
+        default=None,
+        help='Number of parallel processes to spawn. 0 uses cpu count.')
+
+    parser.add_argument(
+        '--rc', "--rebuild-cache",
+        action='store_true',
+        dest="rebuild_cache",
+        help='rebuild cache and save to file')
+
+    parser.add_argument(
+        '-c', '--cache_file',
+        type=str,
+        default='./cache.txt',
+        help='Path to cache file')
+
+    parser.add_argument(
+        '-n', '--noise',
+        type=float,
+        default=0,
+        help='Noise level')
+
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+
+    if all([args.exclude_basic,
+            args.exclude_ordinary,
+            args.exclude_cheating,
+            args.exclude_combined]):
+        print "You've excluded everything - nothing for me to do"
+    else:
+        setup_logging(args.logging_destination, args.verbosity)
+        # Unravel argparse Namespace object to python keyword arguments.
+        kwargs = vars(args)
+        del kwargs["logging_destination"]
+        del kwargs["verbosity"]
+        run_tournaments(**kwargs)