initial commit of project

crawl_recipes/tools/get_input.py

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+import os
+import sys
+import json
+
+def get_input(file_path, print_config=False):
+    """ Retrieve user input in json format. """
+
+    # Check path exists
+    if not os.path.exists(file_path):
+        print('GetInput error: Input path does not exist:\n%s' %(file_path))
+        sys.exit(1)
+    else:
+        pass
+
+    # Retrieve user preferences from json file, return dict
+    with open(file_path, "r") as f:
+        config = json.load(f)
+
+    # Print nicely as json
+    if print_config:
+        print(json.dumps(config, indent=4, sort_keys=True))
+
+    return config