Am a newbie,
using Python, Appium, Android emulator;
and so far I was manually launching appium server prior to running tests,
searched how to launch appium from code so as to integrate the server side timeout argument - but my implementation is not working 
service = AppiumService()
service.start(
args=[‘–address’, ‘127.0.0.1’, ‘-p’, str(4723), ‘-ka’, ‘0’]
)
// run tests
service.stop()
ERROR =>
npm WARN config global --global, --local are deprecated. Use --location=global instead.
Original error: b’usage: /Users/imac/.npm-packages/lib/node_modules/appium/build/lib/main.js\n
Checked stackoverflow solutions to upgrade npm version or edit file for deprecated prefix - but am still stuck
( am using a mac and most solutions regards this npm error are for windows )
Advice would be most welcomed!