JohnVanNote / bill-search

bill-search

This is a Python script that I wrote for a coding interview.

I don't have the full prompt here but the general idea is two scripts:

• billsearch.py
• billsearch-withbolding.py

Both scripts search the zip file billstatus_xml.zip. This zip contains XML files with Senate Bill information. The script allows the user to search the bill summary for a regex and returns all bills (bill type/bill name) that match the regex.

python3 billsearch.py search "American \w+ Bureau"

Found the following bills:
SRES 39

billsearch-withbolding.py goes a step further to to not only return the bill type and name but the summary as well with the regex that matched bolded.

python3 billsearch-with-bolding.py search "American \w+ Bureau"

Found the following bills:
SRES 39: This resolution commemorates the 100th anniversary of the **American Farm Bureau** Federation and recognizes its efforts to promote and advocate for U.S. farm and ranch interests.

Requirements

The only requirements for this project should be vagrant and the vagrant prerequisites (VirtualBox). This script can be run on the Vagrant image with should come with Python/Pip/Django provisioned during the Vagrant up process.

The use of the Vagrant box is that whenever I installed Python 3 on my local machine I must've messed it up, because it simply refused to work, so this decouples my local machine from the development tasks.

Usage

billsearch.py

The command utility works as such:

python3 billsearch.py search "[PUT REGEX HERE]"

# for example
python3 billsearch.py search "American \w+ Bureau"

This can be test via vagrant provisioner by the following:

vagrant provision --provision-with run-billsearch

billsearch-withbolding.py

The command utility works as such:

python3 billsearch-with-bolding.py search "[PUT REGEX HERE]"
# for example
python3 billsearch-with-bolding.py search "American \w+ Bureau"

This can be test via vagrant provisioner by the following:

vagrant provision --provision-with run-billsearch-withbold

Unit Tests

The unit tests are configured and return results to unit.xml.

The command utility works as such:

python3 manage.py test

This can be test via vagrant provisioner by the following:

vagrant provision --provision-with test