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Style Book

We're currently using the Chicago Manual of Style. It's imperfect, but it's better than the alternatives, so far.

Style Basics & Deviations From the Stylebook

  • We don't wrap article titles within text in quotes, but we do link to them on first usage
  • We don't italicize the names of publications in article text
  • We don't cap "The" in publication titles in article text, but we do in Organization entries
  • Commas and periods go inside closing quotation marks
# This sample code will get data from excel files that are sent as gmail attachments by scraping the embedded "sheet1.xml" files, if the files are formatted the same way.
# The data in each attachment (in this example, arrest records) will be saved a csv file in the "outpath" subdirectory. The csvs can later be combined using csvkit or another tool if so desired.
# Code originally written in Python 2.7 (sorry!)
import os
import re
import csv
import imaplib