Very beginning of the base counter implementation.

.gitignore

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 Albertson.egg-info
 .coverage
+tests/config.ini

albertson/base.py

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+import boto
+
+
+class Counter(object):
+    '''
+    Base counter class that can be used directly or overwritten as needed.
+    '''
+
+    def __init__(self, aws_access_key=None, aws_secret_key=None):
+        self.conn = self.get_conn(aws_access_key, aws_secret_key)
+
+    def get_conn(self, aws_access_key=None, aws_secret_key=None):
+        return boto.connect_dynamodb(
+            aws_access_key_id=aws_access_key,
+            aws_secret_access_key=aws_secret_key,
+        )

setup.cfg

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 detailed-errors=1
 with-coverage=1
 cover-package=albertson
-pdb=1
-pdb-failures=1
+tc-file=tests/config.ini

tests/base.py

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+import unittest
+
+from testconfig import config
+
+from albertson.base import Counter
+
+
+class BaseCounterTests(unittest.TestCase):
+
+    def test_base_init(self):
+        counter = Counter(
+            aws_access_key=config['aws']['access_key'],
+            aws_secret_key=config['aws']['secret_key'],
+        )
+
+        counter.conn.list_tables()

tests/config.ini.template

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+[aws]
+access_key=YOUR_AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID
+secret_key=YOUR_AWS_SECRET_KEY