Excerpt from so-predict.py with function definition of setQuestionsQuantiles

import boto3

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s3 = boto3.resource('s3')
bucket_name = 'so_predict'

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def setQuestionsQuantiles():
    """Reads data about Stack Overflow questions by quantile from an AWS S3 bucket into a dictionary."""
    print("Starting setQuestionsQuantiles()")
    obj = s3.Object(bucket_name,'questions_quantiles.json')
    global questions_quantiles
    questions_quantiles = json.loads(obj.get()['Body'].read().decode())
    print("questions_quantiles: {}".format(questions_quantiles))