Open lauriemerrell opened 1 year ago
Unfortunately, I was unable to set up your project to run locally due to the AWS usage but I wrote up a little script that can parse the holidays out of the CTA site with the holidays
package you suggested. This currently assumes that holidays are correctly named but seems to do the job right now. One could also add some word likeness checking but that doesn't seem necessary as is. Let me know if this is of help!
https://gist.github.com/adrianleh/a5c532fd693cdf19791f5a0382405e6f
Thank you @adrianleh! We are on a bit of a hiatus this week for the holiday but I will take a look soon!
Spinout from: https://github.com/chihacknight/chn-ghost-buses/pull/37#discussion_r1003846071
In
compare_scheduled_and_rt.py
we have a hard-coded list of holidays in a few places (ex: https://github.com/chihacknight/chn-ghost-buses/blob/main/data_analysis/compare_scheduled_and_rt.py#L99) and ideally that would be handled more automatically.There is a
holidays
library in Python: https://github.com/dr-prodigy/python-holidays, which could help us. The thing is that we do not want to check for generic US (or even Chicago / Cook County) holidays, we only want to check for the specific holidays on which the CTA runs Sunday Service.At time of posting, that is: