test & refactor Config.olderThan()

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Introduction

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Skills to solve this Issue

• Unit teststing.
• Refactoring.

The problem

This is about the method config.py::Config.olderThan().

• It is not covered by any unit test.
• It does not belong to the class Config.

Your next steps

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2. Read the existing contributors documentation.
3. We can develop the next steps in the further discussion. Don't hesitate to ask.
4. See next section Solution.

Solution

1. First, write unit tests to cover the whole behavior of that method.
2. Improve the doc strings based on the things you learned about that method.
3. Move the method somewhere else. If there is no better idea, just move it to common/tools.py as a function.
4. Refactor the code without changing its behavior.