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+# Copyright (c) 2024, SAS Institute Inc., Cary, NC, USA.  All Rights Reserved.
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+
+"""
+- Collect inputs and outputs from inputVar.json and outputVar.json
+    - Throw error or include optional arguments
+- How to handle imports?
+    - pass a list of imports, etc
+- How do we handle model loading?
+    - re.sub() with "Path(settings.pickle_path) / " and file name
+    - Document replacement of path with inclusion of settings.pickle_path
+- What form do we want to take the score snippet in?
+    - function...we'll parse and drop in the contents
+    - file, but tell us the score function...include other functions and pull out score function info
+"""
+
+
+class ScoreWrapper:
+    score_wrapper: str = ""
+
+    @classmethod
+    def write_score_wrapper(
+        cls,
+    ):
+
+"""
+<imports provided by user>
+import settings
+<model load>
+    add Path(settings.pickle_path
+function definition
+docstring: output string
+globalize model and try/except block
+<model scoring code>
+clean up output
+"""
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