Function checkIfNullString

union/Santos/expandSearch.py:27–32

(string)

    return (string)

def checkIfNullString(string):
    nullList = ['nan','-','unknown','other (unknown)','null','na', "", " "]
    if str(string).lower() not in nullList:
        return 1
    else:
        return 0

def preprocessListValues(valueList):
    valueList = [x.lower() for x in valueList if checkIfNullString(x) !=0]