def getShelf():
"""
Return an instance of shelve.Shelf, in which we store hashes
of the previously processed datasets.
"""
path = os.path.join(util.root(), "db", "shelf")
return shelve.open(path)
def getConfig():
"""
Reads JSON configuration from etc/config.json
"""
with open(os.path.join(util.root(), "etc", "config.json"), "r") as configFile:
return json.loads(configFile.read())
