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import re
def _extract_authors(byline):
        """
Takes one of our bylines returned from the Oxygen API, and
tries to split it out into individual authors. Only works up
to a triple byline.
"""
        fallback_byline = re.compile("([\-\w.&; ]+)")
        single_byline = re.compile("By ([\-\w.&; ]+)")
        double_byline = re.compile("By ([\-\w.&; ]+) and ([\-\w.&; ]+)")

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import re
import json

ws_re = re.compile("\s+")
line_num_re = re.compile("\s\d+\s{2,}", re.M)

# first, pdftotext -layout <pdf> <text>
with open("12-307_jnt1.txt", "r") as f:
    data = f.read()

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This should get you there: 

easy_install virtualenv
easy_install pip
virtualenv --no-site-packages elections
cd elections
. bin/activate
mkdir project
cd project
pip install python-elections

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The Boston Globe
1105 Government Information Group
11Alive
13WMAZ News
60 Minutes
A.Q. Miller School of Journalism and Mass Communications
Accent Online
ACLU Massachusetts
ACLU National Security Project
Adirondack Daily Enterprise

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Message from Randy Michaels/Lee Abrams Suspended
Tribune Communications
Sent:	 Wednesday, October 13, 2010 11:28 AM
 
I want to let you know that today we made the decision to suspend Lee Abrams from his position as Tribune’s Chief Innovation Officer.  He will remain on suspension indefinitely and without pay while we review the circumstances surrounding the email and video link he distributed on Monday.   We’re in the process of determining further disciplinary action.   
 
Lee recognizes that the video was in extremely bad taste and that it offended employees—he has also apologized publicly.  He reiterated those feelings again to me privately today.  But, this is the kind of serious mistake that can’t be tolerated; we intend to address it promptly and forcefully.   
 
As I said last week, a creative culture must be built on a foundation of respect.  Our culture is not about being offensive or hurtful.  We encourage employees to speak up when they see or hear something that they find offensive, as a number o

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# in toolbox/text.py:
def count_capital_words(str):
    """
    Counts the number of capital words in a string and returns a % of ALL-CAPS WORDS. Issues with this:
    "words" made up of non-letters get counted as all-caps (including emoticons: :(, :), 8===D, etc). Also,
    CoMmEnTs lIkE tHiZ don't get counted. Perhaps a better solution would be to to use a regex to count all occurrences of
    [A-Z]. This works decently though.
    """
    count = 0
    words = str.split()

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def apdate_to_datetime(date):
    """
    Takes an AP-formatted date string and returns a Python datetime
    object. This will also work on any date formatted as either
    '%b. %d, %Y' or '%B %d, %Y'

    Examples:
        >>> apdate_to_datetime("Sept. 4, 1986")
        datetime.datetime(1986, 9, 4, 0, 0)
        >>> apdate_to_datetime("Sep. 4, 1986")

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function in_array(val, arr, sep){
    /* Takes an array, joins it using sep (default = '|'), then 
    *  uses indexOf to test if val is in arr. Returns true or false.
    */

    if(!sep){
        var sep = "|";
    }

    var join = ["", arr.join(sep), ""].join(sep);