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Diffstat (limited to 'parsers/people.py')
| -rw-r--r-- | parsers/people.py | 10 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/parsers/people.py b/parsers/people.py index dd4d896..2d7c5b0 100644 --- a/parsers/people.py +++ b/parsers/people.py @@ -75,7 +75,8 @@ def troggle_slugify(longname): slug = slug.replace('&', '') # otherwise just remove the & slug = slug.replace(';', '') # otherwise just remove the ; slug = re.sub(r'<[^>]*>','',slug) # remove <span-lang = "hu"> - + slug=slug.strip("-") # remove spare hyphens + if len(slug) > 40: # slugfield is 50 chars slug = slug[:40] if slug in slug_cache: @@ -237,6 +238,13 @@ Gpersonexpeditionnamelookup = {} def GetPersonExpeditionNameLookup(expedition): """Yes this should all be in an editable text file, not in the body of the code. Sorry. + + This uses the existing database records of everone on an expedition to construct a dictionary + indexedby every possible pseudonym or alias that the person might be known by. + + This dictionary is used when parsing logbooks and survex files to identify who is being + referred to, when the name written in the logbook is e.g. "Mike TA" == "Mike The Animal" + == "Mike Rickardson". """ global Gpersonexpeditionnamelookup |