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Alok Singh 42a9233e1d Improve yapf speed and document its usage (#2160)
* Allow yapf to lint individual files

* Add tip for using yapf

* Update doc

* Update script to autoformat changed py files

The new default is for the script to only updated changed files to encourage
using it as a pre-push hook. Travis still checks all since it's not that big an
increase to runtime.

* Exclude formatting thirdparty/autogen py files

* Symlink .travis -> scripts

Hidden directories may get glossed over otherwise.

* .travis -> scripts in docs

They are symlinks to the same thing, but `scripts` is more dev-friendly, while
`.travis` is really only for Travis CI.

* Document different yapf format functions

Most devs will only need `format_changed`, and this is run by default.
`format_changed` should be fast enough in most cases to work as a pre-commit
hook.

* Speed up yapf by only formatting changed files

* Update docs

1. Mention how yapf can be used a pre-commit hook
2. rm `bash`, script is executable

* Update yapf.sh

* Update development.rst

* Update yapf.sh

* Use bash arrays for correct argument splitting

Playing fast and loose with whitespace in bash is a terrible idea.

* Only format non-excluded by default

* Check changes against master

Normally, the remote is called `origin`, but naming it explicit

* Adding missing directory to `format_all`

* Cleanup YAPF code

Remove unused function and move around code to make clearer and adding lines
give cleaner diffs.

* Ensure correct files are autoformatted

* Fix cmd line arg splitting

Each arg has to be in its own set of quotes.

* Diff against mergebase

TIL there's a clean syntax for doing that, but it's too clever to belong in a
shell script.

We use `mapfile -t` to ensure no problems down the line with weird filenames.
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Development Tips
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If you are doing development on the Ray codebase, the following tips may be
helpful.
1. **Speeding up compilation:** Be sure to install Ray with
.. code-block:: shell
cd ray/python
pip install -e . --verbose
The ``-e`` means "editable", so changes you make to files in the Ray
directory will take effect without reinstalling the package. In contrast, if
you do ``python setup.py install``, files will be copied from the Ray
directory to a directory of Python packages (often something like
``/home/ubuntu/anaconda3/lib/python3.6/site-packages/ray``). This means that
changes you make to files in the Ray directory will not have any effect.
If you run into **Permission Denied** errors when running ``pip install``,
you can try adding ``--user``. You may also need to run something like ``sudo
chown -R $USER /home/ubuntu/anaconda3`` (substituting in the appropriate
path).
If you make changes to the C++ files, you will need to recompile them.
However, you do not need to rerun ``pip install -e .``. Instead, you can
recompile much more quickly by doing
.. code-block:: shell
cd ray/build
make -j8
2. **Starting processes in a debugger:** When processes are crashing, it is
often useful to start them in a debugger (``gdb`` on Linux or ``lldb`` on
MacOS). See the latest discussion about how to do this `here`_.
3. **Running tests locally:** Suppose that one of the tests (e.g.,
``runtest.py``) is failing. You can run that test locally by running
``python test/runtest.py``. However, doing so will run all of the tests which
can take a while. To run a specific test that is failing, you can do
.. code-block:: shell
cd ray
python test/runtest.py APITest.testKeywordArgs
When running tests, usually only the first test failure matters. A single
test failure often triggers the failure of subsequent tests in the same
script.
4. **Running linter locally:** To run the Python linter on a specific file, run
something like ``flake8 ray/python/ray/worker.py``. You may need to first run
``pip install flake8``.
5. **Autoformatting code**. We use ``yapf`` https://github.com/google/yapf for
linting, and the config file is located at ``.style.yapf``. We recommend
running ``.travis/yapf.sh`` prior to pushing to format changed files.
Note that some projects such as dataframes and rllib are currently excluded.
6. **Inspecting Redis shards by hand:** To inspect the primary Redis shard by
hand, you can query it with commands like the following.
.. code-block:: python
r_primary = ray.worker.global_worker.redis_client
r_primary.keys("*")
To inspect other Redis shards, you will need to create a new Redis client.
For example (assuming the relevant IP address is ``127.0.0.1`` and the
relevant port is ``1234``), you can do this as follows.
.. code-block:: python
import redis
r = redis.StrictRedis(host='127.0.0.1', port=1234)
You can find a list of the relevant IP addresses and ports by running
.. code-block:: python
r_primary.lrange('RedisShards', 0, -1)
.. _`here`: https://github.com/ray-project/ray/issues/108