1# This Python script reads a satellites.json file in the old format 2# (using names for satellite IDs) and ouputs a file that uses catalog numbers 3# as satellite IDs. 4# --Bogdan Marinov 5 6import json 7 8# Open the satellites.json file and read it as a hash 9with open('satellites.json') as old_f: 10 old_json = json.load(old_f) 11 12# For each key/value pair: 13new_json = dict() 14for name, satellite in old_json['satellites'].items(): 15 if 'tle2' not in satellite: 16 continue 17 18 # The catalog number is the second number on the second line of the TLE 19 catalog_num = satellite['tle2'].split(' ')[1] 20 satellite['name'] = name 21 if 'lastUpdated' in satellite: 22 del satellite['lastUpdated'] 23 new_json[catalog_num] = satellite.copy() 24 25# Save the result hash as satellites_with_numbers.json 26old_json['satellites'] = new_json 27with open('satellites_with_numbers.json', 'w') as new_f: 28 json.dump(old_json, new_f, indent=4) 29