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Adding a script I had to write on the fly to filter out posts from the posts csv file that had no parent topics. MyISAM let me get away with that, but InnoDB won't.
author Brian Neal <bgneal@gmail.com>
date Sat, 26 Feb 2011 01:28:22 +0000
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"""
filter_posts.py - A script to filter out posts that have no parent topic in the
new database. 

"""
from __future__ import with_statement
import csv
import optparse
import sys


USAGE = "usage: %prog [options]"
DESCRIPTION = """Filters out posts that have no parent topic."""


def main(argv=None):

    parser = optparse.OptionParser(usage=USAGE, description=DESCRIPTION)
    parser.set_defaults(
        topic_file='forums_topic.csv',
        post_file='forums_post.csv',
        output_file='forums_post_filtered.csv',
    )
    parser.add_option("-s", "--progress", action="store_true",
        help="Output a . after every 100 posts to show progress [default: %default]")
    parser.add_option("-t", "--topic-file",
        help="Name of the topics csv file [default: %default]")
    parser.add_option("-p", "--post-file",
        help="Name of the posts csv file [default: %default]")
    parser.add_option("-o", "--output-file",
        help="Name of the output posts csv file [default: %default]")

    opts, args = parser.parse_args(args=argv)

    topics = set()
    with open(opts.topic_file, "rb") as topic_file:
        reader = csv.reader(topic_file)
        for row in reader:
            topics.add(int(row[0]))

    with open(opts.post_file, "rb") as post_file:
        reader = csv.reader(post_file)
        # skip first row
        print reader.next()
        with open(opts.output_file, "wb") as output_file:
            writer = csv.writer(output_file)
            for row in reader:
                topic = int(row[1])
                if topic in topics:
                    writer.writerow(row)
                    

if __name__ == '__main__':
    try:
        main()
    except IOError, ex:
        sys.exit("IO Error: %s" % ex)
    except KeyboardInterrupt:
        sys.exit("Control-C interrupt")