Testing: test data about catnip

[nhsavage]

On ciid ticket 23, I proposed this:

To allow the code to be more portable and adapt to system changes create a config.py file with site-specific configuration settings.

and then when these are needed do e.g.

>>> import config
>>> samplepath = config.SAMPLE_DATADIR+'sites_cube_list/'

Sample config.py from another project

"""
Contains site-specific configuration settings.
"""
import os

#: Data directory containing sample data (site-specific)
SAMPLE_DATADIR = '/data/users/apdg/python_sample_data/'

#: Location of the top level of this version of the code,
#: based on location of this config.py code.
CODE_DIR = os.path.dirname(os.path.realpath(__file__))+'/../'

#: Location of directory that should be writable to by current user
TEST_DIR = os.path.expandvars("$DATADIR")+'/ADAQ_PythonCode/test'

[nhsavage]

in the longer term this should be part of the installation process but that's a little way off yet

[nhsavage]

I have conflated two issues here sorry. I think that we need to cover indpendently:

1. where the data is stored (perhaps in Github but using git lfs instead of git to track the files). This ticket
2. How we enable access to the files - see #9

[nhsavage]

data to be stored in this repo in the first case as small number of files. assign to Zubair

[balazagi]

This has been addressed and merged successfully so can be closed