Re-posting as text. Just updated my call to the following:
(py2) C:\Users\user\Desktop\Ullage>python gen_pattern.py -o circleboard.svg -r 7 -c 5 -T checkerboard -s 15 -u mm -w 200 -h 200
This outputs all of my print commands that I placed throughout gen_pattern.py and svgfig.py without errors.