How do I set the minimum and maximum length of dataframes in hypothesis?

Question

I have the following strategy for creating dataframes with genomics data:

from hypothesis.extra.pandas import columns, data_frames, column
import hypothesis.strategies as st


def mysort(tp):

    key = [-1, tp[1], tp[2], int(1e10)]

    return [x for _, x in sorted(zip(key, tp))]

positions = st.integers(min_value=0, max_value=int(1e7))
strands = st.sampled_from("+ -".split())
chromosomes = st.sampled_from(elements=["chr{}".format(str(e)) for e in list(range(1, 23)) + "X Y M".split()])

genomics_data = data_frames(columns=columns(["Chromosome", "Start", "End", "Strand"], dtype=int),
                            rows=st.tuples(chromosomes, positions, positions, strands).map(mysort))

I am not really interested in empty dataframes as they are invalid, and I would also like to produce some really long dfs. How do I change the sizes of the dataframes created for test cases? I.e. min size 1, avg size large?

score 5 · Accepted Answer · answered May 31 '18 at 13:44

You can give the data_frames constructor an index argument which has min_size and max_size options:

from hypothesis.extra.pandas import data_frames, columns, range_indexes
import hypothesis.strategies as st

def mysort(tp):

    key = [-1, tp[1], tp[2], int(1e10)]

    return [x for _, x in sorted(zip(key, tp))]

chromosomes = st.sampled_from(["chr{}".format(str(e)) for e in list(range(1, 23)) + "X Y M".split()])

positions = st.integers(min_value=0, max_value=int(1e7))
strands = st.sampled_from("+ -".split())
dfs = data_frames(index=range_indexes(min_size=5), columns=columns("Chromosome Start End Strand".split(), dtype=int), rows=st.tuples(chromosomes, positions, positions, strands).map(mysort))

Produces dfs like:

  Chromosome    Start      End Strand
0      chr11  1411202  8025685      +
1      chr18   902289  5026205      -
2      chr12  5343877  9282475      +
3      chr16  2279196  8294893      -
4      chr14  1365623  6192931      -
5      chr12  4602782  9424442      +
6      chr10   136262  1739408      +
7      chr15   521644  4861939      +

How do I set the minimum and maximum length of dataframes in hypothesis?

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