Simple redacting of FHIR patient resource in ndjson

redact_patient.py

import ndjson


def redact(patient: dict) -> dict:
    for key in ["name", "telecom"]:
        patient.pop(key, None)
    return patient


with open("patient.ndjson") as f:
    patients = ndjson.load(f)

redacted_patient = [redact(patient) for patient in patients]

with open("patient_redacted.ndjon", "w") as f:
    writer = ndjson.writer(f, ensure_ascii=False)
    for patient in redacted_patient:
        writer.writerow(patient)