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Python - Convert CSV to Objects - Code Design

I have a small script that we use to read in a CSV file containing employees, and perform some basic manipulations with this data.

We read the data (import_gd_dump) and create an object Employeescontaining a list of objects Employee(maybe I should think of a better naming convention ... lol). Then we call clean_all_phone_numbers()on Employees, which calls clean_phone_number()for each Employee, as well as lookup_all_supervisors(), on Employees.

import csv
import re
import sys

#class CSVLoader:
#    """Virtual class to assist with loading in CSV files."""
#    def import_gd_dump(self, input_file='Gp Directory 20100331 original.csv'):
#        gd_extract = csv.DictReader(open(input_file), dialect='excel')
#        employees = []
#        for row in gd_extract:
#            curr_employee = Employee(row)
#            employees.append(curr_employee)
#        return employees
#    #self.employees = {row['dbdirid']:row for row in gd_extract}

# Previously, this was inside a (virtual) class called "CSVLoader".
# However, according to here (http://tomayko.com/writings/the-static-method-thing) - the idiomatic way of doing this in Python is not with a class-function but with a module-level function
def import_gd_dump(input_file='Gp Directory 20100331 original.csv'):
    """Return a list ('employee') of dict objects, taken from a Group Directory CSV file."""
    gd_extract = csv.DictReader(open(input_file), dialect='excel')
    employees = []
    for row in gd_extract:
        employees.append(row)
    return employees

def write_gd_formatted(employees_dict, output_file="gd_formatted.csv"):
    """Read in an Employees() object, and write out each Employee() inside this to a CSV file"""
    gd_output_fieldnames = ('hrid', 'mail', 'givenName', 'sn', 'dbcostcenter', 'dbdirid', 'hrreportsto', 'PHFull', 'PHFull_message', 'SupervisorEmail', 'SupervisorFirstName', 'SupervisorSurname')
    try:
        gd_formatted = csv.DictWriter(open(output_file, 'w', newline=''), fieldnames=gd_output_fieldnames, extrasaction='ignore', dialect='excel')
    except IOError:
        print('Unable to open file, IO error (Is it locked?)')
        sys.exit(1)

    headers = {n:n for n in gd_output_fieldnames}
    gd_formatted.writerow(headers)
    for employee in employees_dict.employee_list:
        # We're using the employee object inbuilt __dict__ attribute - hmm, is this good practice?
        gd_formatted.writerow(employee.__dict__)

class Employee:
    """An Employee in the system, with employee attributes (name, email, cost-centre etc.)"""
    def __init__(self, employee_attributes):
        """We use the Employee constructor to convert a dictionary into instance attributes."""
        for k, v in employee_attributes.items():
            setattr(self, k, v)

    def clean_phone_number(self):
        """Perform some rudimentary checks and corrections, to make sure numbers are in the right format.
        Numbers should be in the form 0XYYYYYYYY, where X is the area code, and Y is the local number."""
        if self.telephoneNumber is None or self.telephoneNumber == '':
            return '', 'Missing phone number.'
        else:
            standard_format = re.compile(r'^\+(?P<intl_prefix>\d{2})\((?P<area_code>\d)\)(?P<local_first_half>\d{4})-(?P<local_second_half>\d{4})')
            extra_zero = re.compile(r'^\+(?P<intl_prefix>\d{2})\(0(?P<area_code>\d)\)(?P<local_first_half>\d{4})-(?P<local_second_half>\d{4})')
            missing_hyphen = re.compile(r'^\+(?P<intl_prefix>\d{2})\(0(?P<area_code>\d)\)(?P<local_first_half>\d{4})(?P<local_second_half>\d{4})')
            if standard_format.search(self.telephoneNumber):
                result = standard_format.search(self.telephoneNumber)
                return '0' + result.group('area_code') + result.group('local_first_half') + result.group('local_second_half'), ''
            elif extra_zero.search(self.telephoneNumber):
                result = extra_zero.search(self.telephoneNumber)
                return '0' + result.group('area_code') + result.group('local_first_half') + result.group('local_second_half'), 'Extra zero in area code - ask user to remediate. '
            elif missing_hyphen.search(self.telephoneNumber):
                result = missing_hyphen.search(self.telephoneNumber)
                return '0' + result.group('area_code') + result.group('local_first_half') + result.group('local_second_half'), 'Missing hyphen in local component - ask user to remediate. '
            else:
                return '', "Number didn't match recognised format. Original text is: " + self.telephoneNumber

class Employees:
    def __init__(self, import_list):
        self.employee_list = []    
        for employee in import_list:
            self.employee_list.append(Employee(employee))

    def clean_all_phone_numbers(self):
        for employee in self.employee_list:
            #Should we just set this directly in Employee.clean_phone_number() instead?
            employee.PHFull, employee.PHFull_message = employee.clean_phone_number()

    # Hmm, the search is O(n^2) - there probably a better way of doing this search?
    def lookup_all_supervisors(self):
        for employee in self.employee_list:
            if employee.hrreportsto is not None and employee.hrreportsto != '':
                for supervisor in self.employee_list:
                    if supervisor.hrid == employee.hrreportsto:
                        (employee.SupervisorEmail, employee.SupervisorFirstName, employee.SupervisorSurname) = supervisor.mail, supervisor.givenName, supervisor.sn
                        break
                else:
                    (employee.SupervisorEmail, employee.SupervisorFirstName, employee.SupervisorSurname) = ('Supervisor not found.', 'Supervisor not found.', 'Supervisor not found.')
            else:
                (employee.SupervisorEmail, employee.SupervisorFirstName, employee.SupervisorSurname) = ('Supervisor not set.', 'Supervisor not set.', 'Supervisor not set.')

    #Is thre a more pythonic way of doing this?
    def print_employees(self):
        for employee in self.employee_list:
            print(employee.__dict__)

if __name__ == '__main__':
    db_employees = Employees(import_gd_dump())
    db_employees.clean_all_phone_numbers()
    db_employees.lookup_all_supervisors()
    #db_employees.print_employees()
    write_gd_formatted(db_employees)

First, my question with the preamble is, can you see something inherently wrong with the above, either from the class or from the point of view of Python? Is logic / design sound?

In any case, to the specifics:

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  • clean_phone_number() lookup_supervisor() . clean_phone_number - O (n), , lookup_supervisor - O (n ^ 2) - ?
  • clean_all_phone_numbers() Employee return/assign - clean_phone_number() ?

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Cheers,

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