Adds #478 changes from dev-sci (#479)

 but have a question about the location of the .toml file.

.github/workflows/pytest_flake8.yml

@@ -27,11 +27,14 @@ jobs:
     - name: Install dependencies
       run: |
         python -m pip install --upgrade pip
-        pip install flake8 pytest pytest-cov coverage numpy netCDF4
+        pip install flake8 pytest pytest-cov coverage numpy netCDF4 jinja2
         if [ -f requirements.txt ]; then pip install -r requirements.txt; fi
     - name: Lint with flake8
       run: |
         # stop the build if there are Python syntax errors
-        flake8 . --count --select=E9 --show-source --statistics
+        flake8 . --count --select=E9,F63,F7 --show-source --statistics
         # exit-zero treats all errors as warnings. The GitHub editor is 127 chars wide
         #flake8 . --count --exit-zero --max-complexity=10 --max-line-length=127 --statistics
+    - name: pytest
+      run: |
+        pytest

pyproject.toml

@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+[tool.pytest.ini_options]
+addopts = "-ra --cov"
+testpaths = ['tests']
+pythonpath = ['.']
+

tests/ush/python_utils/test_misc.py

@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+
+from ush.python_utils.misc import *
+
+class TestMisc:
+    """Test the misc.py functions."""            
+
+    def test_uc(self):
+        """Test the uppercase() function."""        
+        assert uppercase('s') == 'S'
+
+    def test_lc(self):
+        """Test the lowercase() function."""        
+        assert lowercase('S') == 's'
+
+    def test_find_pattern_in_str(self):
+        """Test the find_pattern_in_str() function."""        
+        assert not find_pattern_in_str('.', 's')
+
+    def test_find_pattern_in_fike(self):
+        """Test the find_pattern_in_file() function."""        
+        f = open("test_misc.txt", "w")  
+        f.write("Hello World from " + f.name) 
+        f.close()
+        assert not find_pattern_in_file('H', "test_misc.txt")
+