diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..9ef62e5ff
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+__pycache__/
+tape.py 
+test/
+pytest.ini
+website/
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diff --git a/scripts/lint.py b/scripts/lint.py
index 3eae6198f..d99c6417c 100644
--- a/scripts/lint.py
+++ b/scripts/lint.py
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 import autopep8
-from yapf.yapflib.yapf_api import FormatCode
 import re
 import os
 files = os.listdir('snippets')
diff --git a/scripts/readme.py b/scripts/readme.py
index 5f72333a6..a95373f45 100644
--- a/scripts/readme.py
+++ b/scripts/readme.py
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-import os
 import re
 codeRe = "```\s*python([\s\S]*?)```"
 def title_case(str):
diff --git a/scripts/tdd.py b/scripts/tdd.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..d1d5530d1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/tdd.py
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+import os,re
+
+codeRe = "```\s*python([\s\S]*?)```"
+
+snippets = [string.replace('.md','') for string in os.listdir('snippets')]
+
+for snippet in snippets:
+    os.makedirs('test/' + snippet,exist_ok=True)
+    with open(f'snippets/{snippet}.md','r') as f:
+        content = f.read()
+        code = re.search(codeRe,content).group(1).strip()
+        file_to_write_to = open(f'test/{snippet}/{snippet}.py','w')
+        test_file = open(f'test/{snippet}/{snippet}_test.py','w')
+        file_to_write_to.write(code)
+        file_to_write_to.close()
+        test_file.write(f'''
+import pytest,types,functools
+from {snippet} import {snippet}
+def {snippet}_test():
+    assert isinstance({snippet}, (types.BuiltinFunctionType, types.FunctionType, functools.partial))
+        '''.strip())
+        test_file.close()
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