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fix(places): address review, and merge places GIAS spells more than one way
Two findings from review on #121, plus a third the review prompted.

The cap at three authorities silently dropped the fourth in exactly the case
where the information matters most — a genuinely fragmented place — and
contradicted the stated goal of naming every authority a place sits in. It is
gone. The share rule was always the real limit and already bounds the list at
ten. Measured against the live corpus, one town would have been truncated
today: LONDON, split evenly between Hackney, Lambeth, Westminster and
Lewisham.

parent_authority used mode() while authorities used value_counts(), and on an
exact tie pandas does not guarantee the two pick the same name, so the 301
could have pointed somewhere other than the authority named first on the page.
The parent is now derived from authorities[0]: one computation, one answer.
It also inherits the sentinel filter, so a place can no longer redirect to
/schools/authority/does-not-apply.

Chasing the truncation case surfaced a worse bug. Places were grouped by raw
town value, but the registry is keyed by slug, and GIAS spells the same place
several ways. Five town slugs come from more than one spelling: "London"
(1,819 schools) and "LONDON" (12) both slugify to `london`, so the later group
simply overwrote the earlier one — /schools/london could have shown twelve
schools, silently, depending on row order. Weston-super-Mare was split 14/19
across two spellings and Newcastle-under-Lyme across three. Grouping is now by
slug, and the display name is the most common spelling.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015mWQnpye9F299NVRCCSRvj
2026-08-21 22:42:18 +01:00

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"""The place registry: what places the site publishes, and what is in each.
One module owns this question. The pages, the sitemap and the internal-link
modules all read from here, so the threshold and the collision rules exist in
exactly one place and are testable without a browser or a database.
Two namespaces, never one. 67 viable town names collide with a local
authority name, and the authority is the larger set in only 43 of them —
postal towns cross authority boundaries, so neither can absorb the other.
Keys are "<kind>:<slug>" so the collision cannot reappear in the dict.
"""
from __future__ import annotations
import logging
import re
from dataclasses import dataclass, field
logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
# Five schools with publishable data. Below this a place has nothing to say
# that a list of schools does not, and publishing it is index bloat.
MIN_SCHOOLS = 5
@dataclass(frozen=True)
class Place:
kind: str # "town" | "locality" | "authority" | "outcode"
slug: str
name: str
urns: tuple[int, ...]
parent_authority: str | None # authority NAME, for the 301 target
# Every authority the place meaningfully sits in, largest first. A quarter
# of outcodes and a third of towns straddle a boundary — SW19 is mostly
# Merton but partly Wandsworth — so naming only one asserts something
# false. parent_authority stays single because a redirect needs one
# target; this is what the page shows.
authorities: tuple[tuple[str, int], ...] = ()
# URNs per phase, so the per-phase threshold can be applied without
# re-querying. A place with 30 primaries and 2 secondaries publishes a
# primary variant and no secondary one.
phase_urns: dict[str, tuple[int, ...]] = field(default_factory=dict)
def publishes_phase(self, phase: str) -> bool:
return len(self.phase_urns.get(phase, ())) >= MIN_SCHOOLS
@property
def key(self) -> str:
return f"{self.kind}:{self.slug}"
def _publishable_urns(df) -> set[int]:
"""URNs with something a page could state, deduplicated across years."""
from backend.app import _PUBLISHABLE_FIELDS
cols = [c for c in _PUBLISHABLE_FIELDS if c in df.columns]
if not cols:
return set()
return set(df.loc[df[cols].notna().any(axis=1), "urn"].astype(int))
def _phase_urns(group, publishable: set[int]) -> dict[str, tuple[int, ...]]:
"""URNs per phase. All-through schools count toward both, matching the
PHASE_GROUPS mapping the search filters already use."""
from backend.app import PHASE_GROUPS
if "phase" not in group.columns:
return {}
lowered = group["phase"].fillna("").str.lower()
out: dict[str, tuple[int, ...]] = {}
for phase in ("primary", "secondary"):
wanted = PHASE_GROUPS.get(phase, set())
subset = group[lowered.isin(wanted)]
urns = tuple(sorted({int(u) for u in subset["urn"]} & publishable))
if urns:
out[phase] = urns
return out
# A place is described by an authority when it holds at least a tenth of the
# schools, and at least two. GIAS carries occasional postcode errors — EN6
# lists two Shropshire schools among fourteen in Hertfordshire — and a bare
# "any authority present" rule would print those as though they were real.
# There is deliberately no cap on how many are named. An earlier cut stopped
# at three, which silently dropped the fourth in exactly the case where the
# information matters most — a genuinely fragmented place. The share rule is
# the only limit, and it already bounds the list at ten.
_AUTHORITY_MIN_SHARE = 0.10
_AUTHORITY_MIN_SCHOOLS = 2
def _authorities(group) -> tuple[tuple[str, int], ...]:
"""Authorities this place meaningfully sits in, largest first."""
from backend.app import EXCLUDED_FILTER_VALUES
if "local_authority" not in group.columns:
return ()
counts = group["local_authority"].dropna().value_counts()
total = int(counts.sum())
if not total:
return ()
kept = [
(str(name), int(n)) for name, n in counts.items()
if str(name) not in EXCLUDED_FILTER_VALUES
and n >= _AUTHORITY_MIN_SCHOOLS
and n / total >= _AUTHORITY_MIN_SHARE
]
# A place too small or too fragmented for the share rule still names its
# largest authority, or the page would say nothing about where it is.
if not kept:
for name, n in counts.items():
if str(name) not in EXCLUDED_FILTER_VALUES:
return ((str(name), int(n)),)
return ()
return tuple(kept)
def _parent_authority(authorities: tuple[tuple[str, int], ...]) -> str | None:
"""The 301 target: the largest authority a place sits in.
Derived from `authorities` rather than computed separately. The first cut
used `mode()` here while `authorities` used `value_counts()`, and on an
exact tie pandas does not guarantee the two pick the same name — so the
redirect could have pointed somewhere other than the authority the page
named first. One computation, one answer.
Deriving it also inherits the sentinel filter, so a place can no longer
redirect to /schools/authority/does-not-apply.
"""
return authorities[0][0] if authorities else None
def _group(df, column: str, kind: str, publishable: set[int]) -> dict[str, Place]:
"""One Place per distinct SLUG in `column` that clears the threshold.
Grouped by slug, not by raw value, because GIAS spells the same place
several ways and they all resolve to one URL. Five town slugs come from
more than one spelling: "London" (1,819 schools) and "LONDON" (12) both
slugify to `london`; Weston-super-Mare is split 14/19 across two
spellings; Newcastle-under-Lyme across three.
Grouping by raw value meant the later group simply overwrote the earlier
one in this dict — so /schools/london could have shown twelve schools
instead of 1,819, silently and depending on row order.
The display name is the most common spelling, which is the one a reader
expects to see.
"""
from backend.app import _slugify
if column not in df.columns:
return {}
working = df.assign(_slug=df[column].map(
lambda v: _slugify(str(v).strip()) if isinstance(v, str) and v.strip() else None))
working = working[working["_slug"].notna() & (working["_slug"] != "")]
out: dict[str, Place] = {}
for slug, group in working.groupby("_slug"):
slug = str(slug)
urns = tuple(sorted({int(u) for u in group["urn"]} & publishable))
if len(urns) < MIN_SCHOOLS:
continue
spellings = group[column].dropna().value_counts()
if spellings.empty:
continue
name = str(spellings.index[0]).strip()
authorities = () if kind == "authority" else _authorities(group)
place = Place(
kind=kind, slug=slug, name=name, urns=urns,
parent_authority=_parent_authority(authorities),
authorities=authorities,
phase_urns=_phase_urns(group, publishable),
)
out[place.key] = place
return out
# "SW11 2AA" -> "SW11". Two letters max, one or two digits, optional letter.
_OUTCODE_RE = re.compile(r"^([A-Z]{1,2}\d{1,2}[A-Z]?)\s")
def _outcode(postcode) -> str | None:
if not isinstance(postcode, str):
return None
m = _OUTCODE_RE.match(postcode.upper().strip())
return m.group(1) if m else None
def _outcode_places(df, publishable: set[int]) -> dict[str, Place]:
"""One Place per postcode district clearing the threshold.
These carry no phase variants: nobody searches "primary schools in SW11".
"""
if "postcode" not in df.columns:
return {}
working = df.assign(_oc=df["postcode"].map(_outcode))
working = working[working["_oc"].notna()]
out: dict[str, Place] = {}
for oc, group in working.groupby("_oc"):
urns = tuple(sorted({int(u) for u in group["urn"]} & publishable))
if len(urns) < MIN_SCHOOLS:
continue
authorities = _authorities(group)
place = Place(kind="outcode", slug=str(oc).lower(), name=str(oc),
urns=urns, parent_authority=_parent_authority(authorities),
authorities=authorities,
phase_urns=_phase_urns(group, publishable))
out[place.key] = place
return out
def _locality_places(df, publishable: set[int],
town_slugs: set[str]) -> dict[str, Place]:
"""One Place per curated locality clearing the threshold."""
from backend.localities import LOCALITY_OUTCODES
if "postcode" not in df.columns:
return {}
working = df.assign(_oc=df["postcode"].map(_outcode))
out: dict[str, Place] = {}
for slug, (name, outcodes) in LOCALITY_OUTCODES.items():
if slug in town_slugs:
# Skip, do not raise. The guard exists so a locality never
# silently shadows a town — skipping achieves that, and the error
# log makes it loud.
#
# Raising here took down sitemap generation for all 25,000 school
# pages when "richmond" met the GIAS town Richmond in North
# Yorkshire. Worse, GIAS town names change without any code change,
# so a raise means curated data can break the site spontaneously.
# A curation mistake must cost one page, not the sitemap.
logger.error(
"locality %r collides with the published town of the same "
"slug and has been skipped; rename it or remove it", slug)
continue
group = working[working["_oc"].isin(outcodes)]
urns = tuple(sorted({int(u) for u in group["urn"]} & publishable))
if len(urns) < MIN_SCHOOLS:
# Not an error — a locality can legitimately be too small. Logged
# because one you meant to publish quietly vanishing is the
# failure worth hearing about.
logger.warning(
"locality %s (%s) has %d publishable schools, below the "
"threshold of %d - not published",
slug, ", ".join(outcodes), len(urns), MIN_SCHOOLS)
continue
authorities = _authorities(group)
place = Place(kind="locality", slug=slug, name=name, urns=urns,
parent_authority=_parent_authority(authorities),
authorities=authorities,
phase_urns=_phase_urns(group, publishable))
out[place.key] = place
return out
def build_place_registry(df) -> dict[str, Place]:
"""Every place the site publishes, keyed by "<kind>:<slug>"."""
if df.empty or "urn" not in df.columns:
return {}
publishable = _publishable_urns(df)
registry: dict[str, Place] = {}
registry.update(_group(df, "local_authority", "authority", publishable))
towns = _group(df, "town", "town", publishable)
registry.update(towns)
town_slugs = {p.slug for p in towns.values()}
registry.update(_locality_places(df, publishable, town_slugs))
registry.update(_outcode_places(df, publishable))
return registry