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+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""
+Applies user curated geolocation rules to the geolocation fields in the NDJSON
+records from stdin. The modified records are output to stdout. This does not do
+any additional transformations on top of the user curations.
+"""
+
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from collections import defaultdict
+from sys import exit, stderr, stdin, stdout
+
+
+class CyclicGeolocationRulesError(Exception):
+    pass
+
+
+def load_geolocation_rules(geolocation_rules_file):
+    """
+    Loads the geolocation rules from the provided *geolocation_rules_file*.
+    Returns the rules as a dict:
+    {
+        regions: {
+            countries: {
+                divisions: {
+                    locations: corrected_geolocations_tuple
+                }
+            }
+        }
+    }
+    """
+    geolocation_rules = defaultdict(lambda: defaultdict(lambda: defaultdict(dict)))
+    with open(geolocation_rules_file, 'r') as rules_fh:
+        for line in rules_fh:
+            # ignore comments
+            if line.strip()=="" or line.lstrip()[0] == '#':
+                continue
+
+            row = line.strip('\n').split('\t')
+            # Skip lines that cannot be split into raw and annotated geolocations
+            if len(row) != 2:
+                print(
+                    f"WARNING: Could not decode geolocation rule {line!r}.",
+                    "Please make sure rules are formatted as",
+                    "'region/country/division/location<tab>region/country/division/location'.",
+                    file=stderr)
+                continue
+
+            # remove trailing comments
+            row[-1] = row[-1].partition('#')[0].rstrip()
+            raw , annot = tuple( row[0].split('/') ) , tuple( row[1].split('/') )
+
+            # Skip lines where raw or annotated geolocations cannot be split into 4 fields
+            if len(raw) != 4:
+                print(
+                    f"WARNING: Could not decode the raw geolocation {row[0]!r}.",
+                    "Please make sure it is formatted as 'region/country/division/location'.",
+                    file=stderr
+                )
+                continue
+
+            if len(annot) != 4:
+                print(
+                    f"WARNING: Could not decode the annotated geolocation {row[1]!r}.",
+                    "Please make sure it is formatted as 'region/country/division/location'.",
+                    file=stderr
+                )
+                continue
+
+
+            geolocation_rules[raw[0]][raw[1]][raw[2]][raw[3]] = annot
+
+    return geolocation_rules
+
+
+def get_annotated_geolocation(geolocation_rules, raw_geolocation, rule_traversal = None):
+    """
+    Gets the annotated geolocation for the *raw_geolocation* in the provided
+    *geolocation_rules*.
+
+    Recursively traverses the *geolocation_rules* until we get the annotated
+    geolocation, which must be a Tuple. Returns `None` if there are no
+    applicable rules for the provided *raw_geolocation*.
+
+    Rules are applied in the order of region, country, division, location.
+    First checks the provided raw values for geolocation fields, then if there
+    are not matches, tries to use general rules marked with '*'.
+    """
+    # Always instantiate the rule traversal as an empty list if not provided,
+    # e.g. the first call of this recursive function
+    if rule_traversal is None:
+        rule_traversal = []
+
+    current_rules = geolocation_rules
+    # Traverse the geolocation rules based using the rule_traversal values
+    for field_value in rule_traversal:
+        current_rules = current_rules.get(field_value)
+        # If we hit `None`, then we know there are no matching rules, so stop the rule traversal
+        if current_rules is None:
+            break
+
+    # We've found the tuple of the annotated geolocation
+    if isinstance(current_rules, tuple):
+        return current_rules
+
+    # We've reach the next level of geolocation rules,
+    # so try to traverse the rules with the next target in raw_geolocation
+    if isinstance(current_rules, dict):
+        next_traversal_target = raw_geolocation[len(rule_traversal)]
+        rule_traversal.append(next_traversal_target)
+        return get_annotated_geolocation(geolocation_rules, raw_geolocation, rule_traversal)
+
+    # We did not find any matching rule for the last traversal target
+    if current_rules is None:
+        # If we've used all general rules and we still haven't found a match,
+        # then there are no applicable rules for this geolocation
+        if all(value == '*' for value in rule_traversal):
+            return None
+
+        # If we failed to find matching rule with a general rule as the last
+        # traversal target, then delete all trailing '*'s to reset rule_traversal
+        # to end with the last index that is currently NOT a '*'
+        # [A, *, B, *] => [A, *, B]
+        # [A, B, *, *] => [A, B]
+        # [A, *, *, *] => [A]
+        if rule_traversal[-1] == '*':
+            # Find the index of the first of the consecutive '*' from the
+            # end of the rule_traversal
+            # [A, *, B, *] => first_consecutive_general_rule_index = 3
+            # [A, B, *, *] => first_consecutive_general_rule_index = 2
+            # [A, *, *, *] => first_consecutive_general_rule_index = 1
+            for index, field_value in reversed(list(enumerate(rule_traversal))):
+                if field_value == '*':
+                    first_consecutive_general_rule_index = index
+                else:
+                    break
+
+            rule_traversal = rule_traversal[:first_consecutive_general_rule_index]
+
+        # Set the final value to '*' in hopes that by moving to a general rule,
+        # we can find a matching rule.
+        rule_traversal[-1] = '*'
+
+        return get_annotated_geolocation(geolocation_rules, raw_geolocation, rule_traversal)
+
+
+def transform_geolocations(geolocation_rules, geolocation):
+    """
+    Transform the provided *geolocation* by looking it up in the provided
+    *geolocation_rules*.
+
+    This will use all rules that apply to the geolocation and rules will
+    be applied in the order of region, country, division, location.
+
+    Returns the original geolocation if no geolocation rules apply.
+
+    Raises a `CyclicGeolocationRulesError` if more than 1000 rules have
+    been applied to the raw geolocation.
+    """
+    transformed_values = geolocation
+    rules_applied = 0
+    continue_to_apply = True
+
+    while continue_to_apply:
+        annotated_values = get_annotated_geolocation(geolocation_rules, transformed_values)
+
+        # Stop applying rules if no annotated values were found
+        if annotated_values is None:
+            continue_to_apply = False
+        else:
+            rules_applied += 1
+
+            if rules_applied > 1000:
+                raise CyclicGeolocationRulesError(
+                    "ERROR: More than 1000 geolocation rules applied on the same entry {geolocation!r}."
+                )
+
+            # Create a new list of values for comparison to previous values
+            new_values = list(transformed_values)
+            for index, value in enumerate(annotated_values):
+                # Keep original value if annotated value is '*'
+                if value != '*':
+                    new_values[index] = value
+
+            # Stop applying rules if this rule did not change the values,
+            # since this means we've reach rules with '*' that no longer change values
+            if new_values == transformed_values:
+                continue_to_apply = False
+
+            transformed_values = new_values
+
+    return transformed_values
+
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(
+        description=__doc__,
+        formatter_class=argparse.ArgumentDefaultsHelpFormatter
+    )
+    parser.add_argument("--region-field", default="region",
+        help="Field that contains regions in NDJSON records.")
+    parser.add_argument("--country-field", default="country",
+        help="Field that contains countries in NDJSON records.")
+    parser.add_argument("--division-field", default="division",
+        help="Field that contains divisions in NDJSON records.")
+    parser.add_argument("--location-field", default="location",
+        help="Field that contains location in NDJSON records.")
+    parser.add_argument("--geolocation-rules", metavar="TSV", required=True,
+        help="TSV file of geolocation rules with the format: " +
+             "'<raw_geolocation><tab><annotated_geolocation>' where the raw and annotated geolocations " +
+             "are formatted as '<region>/<country>/<division>/<location>'. " +
+             "If creating a general rule, then the raw field value can be substituted with '*'." +
+             "Lines starting with '#' will be ignored as comments." +
+             "Trailing '#' will be ignored as comments.")
+
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+
+    location_fields = [args.region_field, args.country_field, args.division_field, args.location_field]
+
+    geolocation_rules = load_geolocation_rules(args.geolocation_rules)
+
+    for record in stdin:
+        record = json.loads(record)
+
+        try:
+            annotated_values = transform_geolocations(geolocation_rules, [record.get(field, '') for field in location_fields])
+        except CyclicGeolocationRulesError as e:
+            print(e, file=stderr)
+            exit(1)
+
+        for index, field in enumerate(location_fields):
+            record[field] = annotated_values[index]
+
+        json.dump(record, stdout, allow_nan=False, indent=None, separators=',:')
+        print()
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