Splink 4 blocking rule/blocking rule creator fixes #2103
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There are a variety of linker functions that take blocking rules as an argument directly (i.e. not as part of the settings object) e.g.
count_num_comparisons_from_blocking_rule
This PR ensures these functions accept a
BlockingRuleCreator
(i.e. fromblock_on
), and do not accept aBlockingRule
(which is now internal and shouldn't be used by end users)I created a new file
blocking_rule_creator_utils.py
primarily because of problems with circular imports.I found many of these problems when doing the example/tutorials notebooks and left
TODO
s to fix. There's no need to check the modifications to them, as I'm just reverting the code in them to what it should have been in the first place