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pyopenstates also has some basic methods to help you deal with Open States' bulk data.

See https://openstates.org/data/session-csv/ for more information.

FileType (Enum)

enum specifying the various types of files available from the CSV bulk data:

• Bills
• Actions
• Sources
• Sponsorships
• Versions
• VersionLinks
• Votes
• VotePeople
• VoteSources
• Organizations
• People

load_csv(state, session, file_type)

Returns an instantiated csv.DictReader to iterate over the requested file.

load_merged_dataframe(state, session, which)

Returns a populated pandas.DataFrame with the requested content.

FileType.Actions, FileType.Sources, FileType.Versions, FileType.Sponsorships will be merged against a FileType.Bills dataframe.

FileType.VersionLinks will be merged against both a FileType.Versions and FileType.Bills dataframe.

FileType.VotePeople, FileType.VoteCounts, and FileType.VoteSources will be merged against a FileType.Votes dataframe.

Other types will be returned as-is.