MNT: Make vector field comparison routine programmatically accessible

pyfeeds/tests/__init__.py

@@ -113,6 +113,13 @@ def maketest(filename, returnCode=0, inputs=None, outputs=None, stdout=None):
 
 
 def makepyfeeds(**kwargs):
+
+    # simplest way of creating a dummy pyfeeds object
+    if len(kwargs) == 0:
+        kwargs['command']      = 'compare'
+        kwargs['inputDir']     = os.getcwd()
+        kwargs['benchmarkDir'] = os.getcwd()
+
     args = argparse.Namespace(**kwargs)
     cfg  = argparse.Namespace()
     return main.Pyfeeds(args, cfg)