relatedBills.py

[adamwjo]

Running into some hiccups thought I would discuss here:

I am creating a file called relatedBills.py to do the following:

• Load the titlesIndex file

def loadTitlesIndex(titleIndexPath=PATH_TO_TITLES_INDEX, zip=True):
    titlesIndex = {}
    if zip:
        try:
            with gzip.open(titleIndexPath + '.gz', 'rt', encoding='utf-8') as zipfile:
                titlesIndex = json.load(zipfile)
        except:
            raise Exception('No file at' + titleIndexPath + '.gz')
    else:
        try:
            with open(titleIndexPath, 'r') as f:
                titlesIndex = json.load(f)
        except:
            raise Exception('No file at' + titleIndexPath + '.gz')
    return titlesIndex

• Loop over the data in the titlesIndex file and grab the list of billnumbers for each title
• Loop over each list of bill numbers and return a dictionary containing a billnumber key, and list containing all the billsnumbers that share the same title

def getSameTitles():
    titlesIndex = loadTitlesIndex()
    newIndex = {}
    for key, value in titlesIndex.items():
        bills = value
        for bill in bills:
            if newIndex.get(bill):
                newIndex[bill].append(bill)
            else:
                newIndex[bill] = bill

So far I'm getting a string attribute error leading me to believe that the value I get from newIndex[bill] is not what I'm assuming it is, still working on it but would appreciate any input'

[adamwjo]

Nevemind I think I found it in my else statement newIndex[bill] = [bill]

[adamwjo]

I think the next thing I have to do is reduce the lists in my newIndex dictionary to remove duplicate values

[aih]

Note: I reformatted the code. You can use three ` marks with the type of code ('Python' here).

[aih]

Closing this discussion issue. I'll open a separate issue for the feature that is being built.