search.py and content.md

content.md

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+# Content management guide
+
+This doc is in progress. I'm dumping the stuff here right now, will organize it later.
+
+```
+$ cat data/wiki.json | scripts/search.py -n "Akbar"
+{
+    "to": 1605,
+    "from": 1542,
+    "name": "Akbar",
+    "type": ""
+}
+```
+
+```
+$ cat data/intermediate/pantheon.json | scripts/search.py -n "Akbar"
+{
+    "rating": 0.784730416875,
+    "country": "Pakistan",
+    "from": 1542,
+    "name": "Akbar",
+    "type": "politics"
+}
+```

scripts/search.py

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+#!/usr/bin/python
+
+import sys
+import json
+import argparse
+from bisect import bisect_left
+
+parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description='Searches a person in a dataset, case insensitive.')
+parser.add_argument('-n', '--name', help='search by person name')
+args = parser.parse_args()
+
+data = json.load(sys.stdin)
+keys = [item['name'].lower() for item in data]
+
+k = args.name.lower()
+i = bisect_left(keys, k)
+if i < len(data) and data[i]['name'].lower() == k:
+  print json.dumps(data[i], indent=4, separators=(',', ': '))
+else:
+  print "{}"
+  sys.exit(1)
+