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Handle scans with all points excluded

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Assessment

Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
python
Domain
data

Research direction

Start by locating CompoundGenerator and the GDA tests that currently fail for regions with every point excluded. Determine how an empty scan is expected to be described, then verify that all-point-excluded regions no longer cause those tests to fail.

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Description

CompoundGenerator should be able to describe an empty scan (one where all points have been excluded) - it's a strange case but currently a lot of GDA tests are failing because regions have been carelessly set up.

Dominant language
Python
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Forks
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