Data for Persian/Farsi language constructicon

Generation of YAML files

First the Google spreadsheet is saved as Excel sheet. Then the Excel sheet is opened and saved in CSV format.

Then, YAML files are auto-generated from database.csv using:

$ rm -f data/*yml  # this is to make sure that deleted records get removed also in this repository
$ python convert-db.py database.csv

Combined data file

The individual YAML files are combined into one data on the "generated" branch. The motivation to combine them is to speed up the web page load which is significantly faster when one big file is fetched compared to fetching hundreds of small files.

This is done automatically upon each push or pull request towards the main branch using this workflow:

$ python combine-data.py data > data-combined.yml

Splitting the combined data file

You can also do the opposite of the above and split the combined data file like this (this will write the data files to the folder data, you can change the name/location):

$ python split-data.py data-combined.yml data