Running scripts

[Tre King]

Hello,

I notice there are several scripts for what seem to be utilities located here:

https://github.com/sunlightlabs/openstates/tree/master/scripts

I would like to understand how to invoke these scripts in order to clean up some of the data begin scraped.  Specifically:

• match_leg_ids.py
  
• clean_events.py 
• potential_duped_legislators.py 
  

Can someone advise me on this please?

Thanks, 

Tre

 

[James Turk]

Hi Tre,

These scripts are one offs used by the core team for individual tasks, generally you won't need to run them as they'll be run as needed in production. 

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[Tre King]

James,

Do you mind sharing how I can call these scripts?  I would like my environment to be accurate data and these functions would be helpful for me to use in special cases locally.

Tre

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[James Turk]

Almost all of them are simple python scripts that can be invoked from the command line as python <scriptname>, but I should really caution you that lots of them were written against specific cases and aren't tested/guaranteed to work with current code.  We don't offer support or anything for those.

[Tre King]

James,

My goal here is to fix an issue with naming of legislators being varied slightly in some cases and thus local committee list does not associate the correct (sometimes none) "leg_id" value for a legislator who is a member of the committee.  The result is that I get committee members which return a name but no association is available for these legislator committee members.  Am I explaining this in well?

Respectfully,

Tre

[James Turk]

Ah, yes we have a lot of tools for that as part of billy, the best way to get those kinds of resolutions fixed in our data is to submit reports of unmatched legislators.  If you want it fixed locally we'd recommend syncing against our data using the API or data dumps.

[Tre King]

Are those tools available for me? I am familiar with the "billy-util" commands now, but I don't think that is what you mean.

[James Turk]

Following up off-list.