edsl 0.1.37__py3-none-any.whl → 0.1.37.dev3__py3-none-any.whl

edsl/surveys/RuleCollection.py

@@ -1,387 +1,387 @@
-"""A collection of rules for a survey."""
-
-from typing import List, Union, Any, Optional
-from collections import defaultdict, UserList
-
-from edsl.exceptions import (
-    SurveyRuleCannotEvaluateError,
-    SurveyRuleCollectionHasNoRulesAtNodeError,
-)
-from edsl.utilities.interface import print_table_with_rich
-from edsl.surveys.Rule import Rule
-from edsl.surveys.base import EndOfSurvey
-from edsl.surveys.DAG import DAG
-
-# from graphlib import TopologicalSorter
-
-from collections import namedtuple
-
-NextQuestion = namedtuple(
-    "NextQuestion", "next_q, num_rules_found, expressions_evaluating_to_true, priority"
-)
-
-
-class RuleCollection(UserList):
-    """A collection of rules for a particular survey."""
-
-    def __init__(self, num_questions: Optional[int] = None, rules: List[Rule] = None):
-        """Initialize the RuleCollection object.
-
-        :param num_questions: The number of questions in the survey.
-        :param rules: A list of Rule objects.
-        """
-        super().__init__(rules or [])
-        self.num_questions = num_questions
-
-    def __repr__(self):
-        """Return a string representation of the RuleCollection object.
-
-        Example usage:
-
-        .. code-block:: python
-
-            rule_collection = RuleCollection.example()
-            _ = eval(repr(rule_collection))
-
-        """
-        return f"RuleCollection(rules={self.data}, num_questions={self.num_questions})"
-
-    def to_dict(self):
-        """Create a dictionary representation of the RuleCollection object."""
-        return {
-            "rules": [rule.to_dict() for rule in self],
-            "num_questions": self.num_questions,
-        }
-
-    @classmethod
-    def from_dict(cls, rule_collection_dict):
-        """Create a RuleCollection object from a dictionary.
-
-        >>> rule_collection = RuleCollection.example()
-        >>> rule_collection_dict = rule_collection.to_dict()
-        >>> new_rule_collection = RuleCollection.from_dict(rule_collection_dict)
-        >>> repr(new_rule_collection) == repr(rule_collection)
-        True
-        """
-        rules = [
-            Rule.from_dict(rule_dict) for rule_dict in rule_collection_dict["rules"]
-        ]
-        num_questions = rule_collection_dict["num_questions"]
-        new_rc = cls(rules=rules)
-        new_rc.num_questions = num_questions
-        return new_rc
-
-    def add_rule(self, rule: Rule) -> None:
-        """Add a rule to a survey.
-
-        >>> rule_collection = RuleCollection()
-        >>> rule_collection.add_rule(Rule(current_q=1, expression="q1 == 'yes'", next_q=3, priority=1, question_name_to_index={'q1': 1, 'q2': 2, 'q3': 3, 'q4': 4}))
-        >>> len(rule_collection)
-        1
-
-        >>> rule_collection = RuleCollection()
-        >>> r = Rule(current_q=1, expression="True", next_q=3, priority=1, question_name_to_index={'q1': 1, 'q2': 2, 'q3': 3, 'q4': 4}, before_rule = True)
-        >>> rule_collection.add_rule(r)
-        >>> rule_collection[0] == r
-        True
-        >>> len(rule_collection.applicable_rules(1, before_rule=True))
-        1
-        >>> len(rule_collection.applicable_rules(1, before_rule=False))
-        0
-        """
-        self.append(rule)
-
-    def show_rules(self) -> None:
-        """Print the rules in a table.
-
-
-        .. code-block:: python
-
-        rule_collection = RuleCollection.example()
-        rule_collection.show_rules()
-        ┏━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓
-        ┃ current_q ┃ expression  ┃ next_q ┃ priority ┃ before_rule ┃
-        ┡━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━┩
-        │ 1         │ q1 == 'yes' │ 3      │ 1        │ False       │
-        │ 1         │ q1 == 'no'  │ 2      │ 1        │ False       │
-        └───────────┴─────────────┴────────┴──────────┴─────────────┘
-        """
-        keys = ["current_q", "expression", "next_q", "priority", "before_rule"]
-        rule_list = []
-        for rule in sorted(self, key=lambda r: r.current_q):
-            rule_list.append({k: getattr(rule, k) for k in keys})
-
-        print_table_with_rich(rule_list)
-
-    def skip_question_before_running(self, q_now: int, answers: dict[str, Any]) -> bool:
-        """Determine if a question should be skipped before running the question.
-
-        :param q_now: The current question index.
-        :param answers: The answers to the survey questions.
-
-        >>> rule_collection = RuleCollection()
-        >>> r = Rule(current_q=1, expression="True", next_q=2, priority=1, question_name_to_index={}, before_rule = True)
-        >>> rule_collection.add_rule(r)
-        >>> rule_collection.skip_question_before_running(1, {})
-        True
-
-        >>> rule_collection = RuleCollection()
-        >>> r = Rule(current_q=1, expression="False", next_q=2, priority=1, question_name_to_index={}, before_rule = True)
-        >>> rule_collection.add_rule(r)
-        >>> rule_collection.skip_question_before_running(1, {})
-        False
-
-        """
-        for rule in self.applicable_rules(q_now, before_rule=True):
-            if rule.evaluate(answers):
-                return True
-        return False
-
-    def applicable_rules(self, q_now: int, before_rule: bool = False) -> list:
-        """Show the rules that apply at the current node.
-
-        :param q_now: The current question index.
-        :param before_rule: If True, return rules that are of the type that apply before the question is asked.
-
-        Example usage:
-
-        >>> rule_collection = RuleCollection.example()
-        >>> rule_collection.applicable_rules(1)
-        [Rule(current_q=1, expression="q1 == 'yes'", next_q=3, priority=1, question_name_to_index={'q1': 1, 'q2': 2, 'q3': 3, 'q4': 4}, before_rule=False), Rule(current_q=1, expression="q1 == 'no'", next_q=2, priority=1, question_name_to_index={'q1': 1, 'q2': 2, 'q3': 3, 'q4': 4}, before_rule=False)]
-
-        The default is that the rule is applied after the question is asked.
-        If we want to see the rules that apply before the question is asked, we can set before_rule=True.
-
-        .. code-block:: python
-
-            rule_collection = RuleCollection.example()
-            rule_collection.applicable_rules(1)
-            [Rule(current_q=1, expression="q1 == 'yes'", next_q=3, priority=1, question_name_to_index={'q1': 1, 'q2': 2, 'q3': 3, 'q4': 4}), Rule(current_q=1, expression="q1 == 'no'", next_q=2, priority=1, question_name_to_index={'q1': 1, 'q2': 2, 'q3': 3, 'q4': 4})]
-
-        More than one rule can apply. For example, suppose we are at node 1.
-        We could have three rules:
-        1. "q1 == 'a' ==> 3
-        2. "q1 == 'b' ==> 4
-        3. "q1 == 'c' ==> 5
-        """
-        return [
-            rule
-            for rule in self
-            if rule.current_q == q_now and rule.before_rule == before_rule
-        ]
-
-    def next_question(self, q_now: int, answers: dict[str, Any]) -> NextQuestion:
-        """Find the next question by index, given the rule collection.
-
-        This rule is applied after the question is answered.
-
-        :param q_now: The current question index.
-        :param answers: The answers to the survey questions so far, including the current question.
-
-        >>> rule_collection = RuleCollection.example()
-        >>> rule_collection.next_question(1, {'q1': 'yes'})
-        NextQuestion(next_q=3, num_rules_found=2, expressions_evaluating_to_true=1, priority=1)
-
-        """
-        # # is this the first question? If it is, we need to check if it should be skipped.
-        # if q_now == 0:
-        #     if self.skip_question_before_running(q_now, answers):
-        #         return NextQuestion(
-        #             next_q=q_now + 1,
-        #             num_rules_found=0,
-        #             expressions_evaluating_to_true=0,
-        #             priority=-1,
-        #         )
-
-        # breakpoint()
-        expressions_evaluating_to_true = 0
-        next_q = None
-        highest_priority = -2  # start with -2 to 'pick up' the default rule added
-        num_rules_found = 0
-
-        for rule in self.applicable_rules(q_now, before_rule=False):
-            num_rules_found += 1
-            try:
-                if rule.evaluate(answers):  # evaluates to True
-                    expressions_evaluating_to_true += 1
-                    if rule.priority > highest_priority:  # higher priority
-                        # we have a new champ!
-                        next_q, highest_priority = rule.next_q, rule.priority
-            except SurveyRuleCannotEvaluateError:
-                raise
-
-        if num_rules_found == 0:
-            raise SurveyRuleCollectionHasNoRulesAtNodeError(
-                f"No rules found for question {q_now}"
-            )
-
-        # breakpoint()
-        ## Now we need to check if the *next question* has any 'before; rules that we should follow
-        for rule in self.applicable_rules(next_q, before_rule=True):
-            if rule.evaluate(answers):  # rule evaluates to True
-                return self.next_question(next_q, answers)
-
-        return NextQuestion(
-            next_q, num_rules_found, expressions_evaluating_to_true, highest_priority
-        )
-
-    @property
-    def non_default_rules(self) -> List[Rule]:
-        """Return all rules that are not the default rule.
-
-        >>> rule_collection = RuleCollection.example()
-        >>> len(rule_collection.non_default_rules)
-        2
-
-        Example usage:
-
-        .. code-block:: python
-
-            rule_collection = RuleCollection.example()
-            len(rule_collection.non_default_rules)
-            2
-
-        """
-        return [rule for rule in self if rule.priority > -1]
-
-    def keys_between(self, start_q, end_q, right_inclusive=True):
-        """Return a list of all question indices between start_q and end_q.
-
-        Example usage:
-
-        .. code-block:: python
-
-            rule_collection = RuleCollection(num_questions=5)
-            rule_collection.keys_between(1, 3)
-            [2, 3]
-            rule_collection.keys_between(1, 4)
-            [2, 3, 4]
-            rule_collection.keys_between(1, EndOfSurvey, right_inclusive=False)
-            [2, 3]
-
-        """
-        # If it's the end of the survey, all questions between the start_q and the end of the survey
-        # now depend on the start_q
-        if end_q == EndOfSurvey:
-            if self.num_questions is None:
-                raise ValueError(
-                    "Cannot determine DAG when EndOfSurvey and when num_questions is not known."
-                )
-            end_q = self.num_questions - 1
-
-        question_range = list(range(start_q + 1, end_q + int(right_inclusive)))
-
-        return question_range
-
-    @property
-    def dag(self) -> dict:
-        """
-        Find the DAG of the survey, based on the skip logic.
-
-        Keys are children questions; the list of values are nodes that must be answered first
-
-        Rules are designated at the current question and then direct where
-        control goes next. As such, the destination nodes are the keys
-        and the current nodes are the values. Furthermore, all questions between
-        the current and destination nodes are also included as keys, as they will depend
-        on the answer to the focal node as well.
-
-        For exmaple, if we have a rule that says "if q1 == 'yes', go to q3", then q3 depends on q1, but so does q2.
-        So the DAG would be {3: [1], 2: [1]}.
-
-        Example usage:
-
-        .. code-block:: python
-
-            rule_collection = RuleCollection(num_questions=5)
-            qn2i = {'q1': 1, 'q2': 2, 'q3': 3, 'q4': 4}
-            rule_collection.add_rule(Rule(current_q=1, expression="q1 == 'yes'", next_q=3, priority=1,  question_name_to_index = qn2i))
-            rule_collection.add_rule(Rule(current_q=1, expression="q1 == 'no'", next_q=2, priority=1, question_name_to_index = qn2i))
-            rule_collection.dag
-            {2: {1}, 3: {1}}
-
-        """
-        children_to_parents = defaultdict(set)
-        # We are only interested in non-default rules. Default rules are those
-        # that just go to the next question, so they don't add any dependencies
-
-        ## I think for a skip-question, the potenially-skippable question
-        ## depends on all the other questions bein answered first.
-        for rule in self.non_default_rules:
-            if not rule.before_rule:
-                # for a regular rule, the next question depends on the current question answer
-                current_q, next_q = rule.current_q, rule.next_q
-                for q in self.keys_between(current_q, next_q):
-                    children_to_parents[q].add(current_q)
-            else:
-                # for the 'before rule' skipping depends on all previous answers.
-                focal_q = rule.current_q
-                for q in range(0, focal_q):
-                    children_to_parents[focal_q].add(q)
-
-        return DAG(dict(sorted(children_to_parents.items())))
-
-    def detect_cycles(self):
-        """
-        Detect cycles in the survey rules using depth-first search.
-
-        :return: A list of cycles if any are found, otherwise an empty list.
-        """
-        dag = self.dag
-        visited = set()
-        path = []
-        cycles = []
-
-        def dfs(node):
-            if node in path:
-                cycle = path[path.index(node) :]
-                cycles.append(cycle + [node])
-                return
-
-            if node in visited:
-                return
-
-            visited.add(node)
-            path.append(node)
-
-            for child in dag.get(node, []):
-                dfs(child)
-
-            path.pop()
-
-        for node in dag:
-            if node not in visited:
-                dfs(node)
-
-        return cycles
-
-    @classmethod
-    def example(cls):
-        """Create an example RuleCollection object."""
-        qn2i = {"q1": 1, "q2": 2, "q3": 3, "q4": 4}
-        return cls(
-            num_questions=5,
-            rules=[
-                Rule(
-                    current_q=1,
-                    expression="q1 == 'yes'",
-                    next_q=3,
-                    priority=1,
-                    question_name_to_index=qn2i,
-                ),
-                Rule(
-                    current_q=1,
-                    expression="q1 == 'no'",
-                    next_q=2,
-                    priority=1,
-                    question_name_to_index=qn2i,
-                ),
-            ],
-        )
-
-
-if __name__ == "__main__":
-    # pass
-    import doctest
-
-    doctest.testmod(optionflags=doctest.ELLIPSIS)
+"""A collection of rules for a survey."""
+
+from typing import List, Union, Any, Optional
+from collections import defaultdict, UserList
+
+from edsl.exceptions import (
+    SurveyRuleCannotEvaluateError,
+    SurveyRuleCollectionHasNoRulesAtNodeError,
+)
+from edsl.utilities.interface import print_table_with_rich
+from edsl.surveys.Rule import Rule
+from edsl.surveys.base import EndOfSurvey
+from edsl.surveys.DAG import DAG
+
+# from graphlib import TopologicalSorter
+
+from collections import namedtuple
+
+NextQuestion = namedtuple(
+    "NextQuestion", "next_q, num_rules_found, expressions_evaluating_to_true, priority"
+)
+
+
+class RuleCollection(UserList):
+    """A collection of rules for a particular survey."""
+
+    def __init__(self, num_questions: Optional[int] = None, rules: List[Rule] = None):
+        """Initialize the RuleCollection object.
+
+        :param num_questions: The number of questions in the survey.
+        :param rules: A list of Rule objects.
+        """
+        super().__init__(rules or [])
+        self.num_questions = num_questions
+
+    def __repr__(self):
+        """Return a string representation of the RuleCollection object.
+
+        Example usage:
+
+        .. code-block:: python
+
+            rule_collection = RuleCollection.example()
+            _ = eval(repr(rule_collection))
+
+        """
+        return f"RuleCollection(rules={self.data}, num_questions={self.num_questions})"
+
+    def to_dict(self):
+        """Create a dictionary representation of the RuleCollection object."""
+        return {
+            "rules": [rule.to_dict() for rule in self],
+            "num_questions": self.num_questions,
+        }
+
+    @classmethod
+    def from_dict(cls, rule_collection_dict):
+        """Create a RuleCollection object from a dictionary.
+
+        >>> rule_collection = RuleCollection.example()
+        >>> rule_collection_dict = rule_collection.to_dict()
+        >>> new_rule_collection = RuleCollection.from_dict(rule_collection_dict)
+        >>> repr(new_rule_collection) == repr(rule_collection)
+        True
+        """
+        rules = [
+            Rule.from_dict(rule_dict) for rule_dict in rule_collection_dict["rules"]
+        ]
+        num_questions = rule_collection_dict["num_questions"]
+        new_rc = cls(rules=rules)
+        new_rc.num_questions = num_questions
+        return new_rc
+
+    def add_rule(self, rule: Rule) -> None:
+        """Add a rule to a survey.
+
+        >>> rule_collection = RuleCollection()
+        >>> rule_collection.add_rule(Rule(current_q=1, expression="q1 == 'yes'", next_q=3, priority=1, question_name_to_index={'q1': 1, 'q2': 2, 'q3': 3, 'q4': 4}))
+        >>> len(rule_collection)
+        1
+
+        >>> rule_collection = RuleCollection()
+        >>> r = Rule(current_q=1, expression="True", next_q=3, priority=1, question_name_to_index={'q1': 1, 'q2': 2, 'q3': 3, 'q4': 4}, before_rule = True)
+        >>> rule_collection.add_rule(r)
+        >>> rule_collection[0] == r
+        True
+        >>> len(rule_collection.applicable_rules(1, before_rule=True))
+        1
+        >>> len(rule_collection.applicable_rules(1, before_rule=False))
+        0
+        """
+        self.append(rule)
+
+    def show_rules(self) -> None:
+        """Print the rules in a table.
+
+
+        .. code-block:: python
+
+        rule_collection = RuleCollection.example()
+        rule_collection.show_rules()
+        ┏━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓
+        ┃ current_q ┃ expression  ┃ next_q ┃ priority ┃ before_rule ┃
+        ┡━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━┩
+        │ 1         │ q1 == 'yes' │ 3      │ 1        │ False       │
+        │ 1         │ q1 == 'no'  │ 2      │ 1        │ False       │
+        └───────────┴─────────────┴────────┴──────────┴─────────────┘
+        """
+        keys = ["current_q", "expression", "next_q", "priority", "before_rule"]
+        rule_list = []
+        for rule in sorted(self, key=lambda r: r.current_q):
+            rule_list.append({k: getattr(rule, k) for k in keys})
+
+        print_table_with_rich(rule_list)
+
+    def skip_question_before_running(self, q_now: int, answers: dict[str, Any]) -> bool:
+        """Determine if a question should be skipped before running the question.
+
+        :param q_now: The current question index.
+        :param answers: The answers to the survey questions.
+
+        >>> rule_collection = RuleCollection()
+        >>> r = Rule(current_q=1, expression="True", next_q=2, priority=1, question_name_to_index={}, before_rule = True)
+        >>> rule_collection.add_rule(r)
+        >>> rule_collection.skip_question_before_running(1, {})
+        True
+
+        >>> rule_collection = RuleCollection()
+        >>> r = Rule(current_q=1, expression="False", next_q=2, priority=1, question_name_to_index={}, before_rule = True)
+        >>> rule_collection.add_rule(r)
+        >>> rule_collection.skip_question_before_running(1, {})
+        False
+
+        """
+        for rule in self.applicable_rules(q_now, before_rule=True):
+            if rule.evaluate(answers):
+                return True
+        return False
+
+    def applicable_rules(self, q_now: int, before_rule: bool = False) -> list:
+        """Show the rules that apply at the current node.
+
+        :param q_now: The current question index.
+        :param before_rule: If True, return rules that are of the type that apply before the question is asked.
+
+        Example usage:
+
+        >>> rule_collection = RuleCollection.example()
+        >>> rule_collection.applicable_rules(1)
+        [Rule(current_q=1, expression="q1 == 'yes'", next_q=3, priority=1, question_name_to_index={'q1': 1, 'q2': 2, 'q3': 3, 'q4': 4}, before_rule=False), Rule(current_q=1, expression="q1 == 'no'", next_q=2, priority=1, question_name_to_index={'q1': 1, 'q2': 2, 'q3': 3, 'q4': 4}, before_rule=False)]
+
+        The default is that the rule is applied after the question is asked.
+        If we want to see the rules that apply before the question is asked, we can set before_rule=True.
+
+        .. code-block:: python
+
+            rule_collection = RuleCollection.example()
+            rule_collection.applicable_rules(1)
+            [Rule(current_q=1, expression="q1 == 'yes'", next_q=3, priority=1, question_name_to_index={'q1': 1, 'q2': 2, 'q3': 3, 'q4': 4}), Rule(current_q=1, expression="q1 == 'no'", next_q=2, priority=1, question_name_to_index={'q1': 1, 'q2': 2, 'q3': 3, 'q4': 4})]
+
+        More than one rule can apply. For example, suppose we are at node 1.
+        We could have three rules:
+        1. "q1 == 'a' ==> 3
+        2. "q1 == 'b' ==> 4
+        3. "q1 == 'c' ==> 5
+        """
+        return [
+            rule
+            for rule in self
+            if rule.current_q == q_now and rule.before_rule == before_rule
+        ]
+
+    def next_question(self, q_now: int, answers: dict[str, Any]) -> NextQuestion:
+        """Find the next question by index, given the rule collection.
+
+        This rule is applied after the question is answered.
+
+        :param q_now: The current question index.
+        :param answers: The answers to the survey questions so far, including the current question.
+
+        >>> rule_collection = RuleCollection.example()
+        >>> rule_collection.next_question(1, {'q1': 'yes'})
+        NextQuestion(next_q=3, num_rules_found=2, expressions_evaluating_to_true=1, priority=1)
+
+        """
+        # # is this the first question? If it is, we need to check if it should be skipped.
+        # if q_now == 0:
+        #     if self.skip_question_before_running(q_now, answers):
+        #         return NextQuestion(
+        #             next_q=q_now + 1,
+        #             num_rules_found=0,
+        #             expressions_evaluating_to_true=0,
+        #             priority=-1,
+        #         )
+
+        # breakpoint()
+        expressions_evaluating_to_true = 0
+        next_q = None
+        highest_priority = -2  # start with -2 to 'pick up' the default rule added
+        num_rules_found = 0
+
+        for rule in self.applicable_rules(q_now, before_rule=False):
+            num_rules_found += 1
+            try:
+                if rule.evaluate(answers):  # evaluates to True
+                    expressions_evaluating_to_true += 1
+                    if rule.priority > highest_priority:  # higher priority
+                        # we have a new champ!
+                        next_q, highest_priority = rule.next_q, rule.priority
+            except SurveyRuleCannotEvaluateError:
+                raise
+
+        if num_rules_found == 0:
+            raise SurveyRuleCollectionHasNoRulesAtNodeError(
+                f"No rules found for question {q_now}"
+            )
+
+        # breakpoint()
+        ## Now we need to check if the *next question* has any 'before; rules that we should follow
+        for rule in self.applicable_rules(next_q, before_rule=True):
+            if rule.evaluate(answers):  # rule evaluates to True
+                return self.next_question(next_q, answers)
+
+        return NextQuestion(
+            next_q, num_rules_found, expressions_evaluating_to_true, highest_priority
+        )
+
+    @property
+    def non_default_rules(self) -> List[Rule]:
+        """Return all rules that are not the default rule.
+
+        >>> rule_collection = RuleCollection.example()
+        >>> len(rule_collection.non_default_rules)
+        2
+
+        Example usage:
+
+        .. code-block:: python
+
+            rule_collection = RuleCollection.example()
+            len(rule_collection.non_default_rules)
+            2
+
+        """
+        return [rule for rule in self if rule.priority > -1]
+
+    def keys_between(self, start_q, end_q, right_inclusive=True):
+        """Return a list of all question indices between start_q and end_q.
+
+        Example usage:
+
+        .. code-block:: python
+
+            rule_collection = RuleCollection(num_questions=5)
+            rule_collection.keys_between(1, 3)
+            [2, 3]
+            rule_collection.keys_between(1, 4)
+            [2, 3, 4]
+            rule_collection.keys_between(1, EndOfSurvey, right_inclusive=False)
+            [2, 3]
+
+        """
+        # If it's the end of the survey, all questions between the start_q and the end of the survey
+        # now depend on the start_q
+        if end_q == EndOfSurvey:
+            if self.num_questions is None:
+                raise ValueError(
+                    "Cannot determine DAG when EndOfSurvey and when num_questions is not known."
+                )
+            end_q = self.num_questions - 1
+
+        question_range = list(range(start_q + 1, end_q + int(right_inclusive)))
+
+        return question_range
+
+    @property
+    def dag(self) -> dict:
+        """
+        Find the DAG of the survey, based on the skip logic.
+
+        Keys are children questions; the list of values are nodes that must be answered first
+
+        Rules are designated at the current question and then direct where
+        control goes next. As such, the destination nodes are the keys
+        and the current nodes are the values. Furthermore, all questions between
+        the current and destination nodes are also included as keys, as they will depend
+        on the answer to the focal node as well.
+
+        For exmaple, if we have a rule that says "if q1 == 'yes', go to q3", then q3 depends on q1, but so does q2.
+        So the DAG would be {3: [1], 2: [1]}.
+
+        Example usage:
+
+        .. code-block:: python
+
+            rule_collection = RuleCollection(num_questions=5)
+            qn2i = {'q1': 1, 'q2': 2, 'q3': 3, 'q4': 4}
+            rule_collection.add_rule(Rule(current_q=1, expression="q1 == 'yes'", next_q=3, priority=1,  question_name_to_index = qn2i))
+            rule_collection.add_rule(Rule(current_q=1, expression="q1 == 'no'", next_q=2, priority=1, question_name_to_index = qn2i))
+            rule_collection.dag
+            {2: {1}, 3: {1}}
+
+        """
+        children_to_parents = defaultdict(set)
+        # We are only interested in non-default rules. Default rules are those
+        # that just go to the next question, so they don't add any dependencies
+
+        ## I think for a skip-question, the potenially-skippable question
+        ## depends on all the other questions bein answered first.
+        for rule in self.non_default_rules:
+            if not rule.before_rule:
+                # for a regular rule, the next question depends on the current question answer
+                current_q, next_q = rule.current_q, rule.next_q
+                for q in self.keys_between(current_q, next_q):
+                    children_to_parents[q].add(current_q)
+            else:
+                # for the 'before rule' skipping depends on all previous answers.
+                focal_q = rule.current_q
+                for q in range(0, focal_q):
+                    children_to_parents[focal_q].add(q)
+
+        return DAG(dict(sorted(children_to_parents.items())))
+
+    def detect_cycles(self):
+        """
+        Detect cycles in the survey rules using depth-first search.
+
+        :return: A list of cycles if any are found, otherwise an empty list.
+        """
+        dag = self.dag
+        visited = set()
+        path = []
+        cycles = []
+
+        def dfs(node):
+            if node in path:
+                cycle = path[path.index(node) :]
+                cycles.append(cycle + [node])
+                return
+
+            if node in visited:
+                return
+
+            visited.add(node)
+            path.append(node)
+
+            for child in dag.get(node, []):
+                dfs(child)
+
+            path.pop()
+
+        for node in dag:
+            if node not in visited:
+                dfs(node)
+
+        return cycles
+
+    @classmethod
+    def example(cls):
+        """Create an example RuleCollection object."""
+        qn2i = {"q1": 1, "q2": 2, "q3": 3, "q4": 4}
+        return cls(
+            num_questions=5,
+            rules=[
+                Rule(
+                    current_q=1,
+                    expression="q1 == 'yes'",
+                    next_q=3,
+                    priority=1,
+                    question_name_to_index=qn2i,
+                ),
+                Rule(
+                    current_q=1,
+                    expression="q1 == 'no'",
+                    next_q=2,
+                    priority=1,
+                    question_name_to_index=qn2i,
+                ),
+            ],
+        )
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    # pass
+    import doctest
+
+    doctest.testmod(optionflags=doctest.ELLIPSIS)