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Boiler Room Python Coding Challenge

Create a script that can import users from a CSV into a database table.

Challenge

Update main.py so that it does the following:

1. Parse a CSV file of users:

   • Read the CSV file, which can be of any number of rows up to 100000.
   • Validate fields for import:
     • Email addresses must be valid
     • Tags must be alphanumeric with hyphens
   • See example.csv for the CSV format.

2. Find or insert users from CSV into an SQLite database:

   • Setup the database.
   • Connect to a database and perform operations to update or insert a user.
   • Dedupe on email address.
   • Each user must have a unique UUID using a salt/hash.

3. Post user data to an external API:

   • Post all imported users to fake endpoint.
   • Use endpoint https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/posts.
   • Endpoint body format should be {users: [{email, uuid, tags: ['tag1', 'tag2']}]}
   • Note that the API can only accept chunks of 75 users at a time.

Requirements

• Your program should be command line only.
• The program should be optimized for performance.
• You should write tests to accompany your program.
• Setup your program with dependencies.
• Make sensible assumptions on validation.
• The program should have clear logs.
• Write instructions on how to run your program in markdown.

Delivery

• this folder is a git repo, commit your changes to it locally before zipping it up and sending to us (we would like to see your working)
• make a note of any assumptions you've made during the build