L2SS-245: add argparse so that I can start the thing with different settings

devices/test/devices/monitoring_performance_test.py

@@ -16,13 +16,14 @@ sys.path.append(parentdir)
 
 import time
 import numpy
+from argparse import ArgumentParser
 from tango import DevState, Util
 from tango.server import run, Device, attribute
 from numpy import random
 
 __all__ = ["Monitoring_Performance_Device", "main"]
 
-POLLING_THREADS = 1
+POLLING_THREADS = 10
 ARRAY_SIZE = 10000
 
 class Monitoring_Performance_Device(Device):
@@ -112,6 +113,16 @@ class Monitoring_Performance_Device(Device):
 
 
 def main(args = None, **kwargs):
+    print('*{}\n*{}\n'.format(args, kwargs))
+    parser = ArgumentParser()
+    global POLLING_THREADS, ARRAY_SIZE
+    parser.add_argument("--threads", "-t", dest = "threads", help = "The number of polling threads.", type = int, default = POLLING_THREADS, required = True)
+    parser.add_argument("--array_size", "-a", dest = "size", help = "The size of the four numpy arrays.", type = int, default = ARRAY_SIZE, required = True)
+    from sys import argv
+    args = argv[1:]
+    settings = parser.parse_known_args(args)
+    POLLING_THREADS = settings['threads']
+    ARRAY_SIZE = settings['size']
     return run((Monitoring_Performance_Device, ), args = args, **kwargs)
 
 if __name__ == '__main__':