old_contents: #!/usr/bin/env python
  import sys
  import csv
  import json
  import re
  
  if len(sys.argv) != 3:
    print 'Incorrect number of arguments.'
    print 'Usage: csv_to_json.py path_to_csv path_to_json'
    exit()
  
  print 'Argument List:', str(sys.argv)
  csvFileName = sys.argv[1]
  jsonFileArray = sys.argv[2].split(".")
  
  csvFile = open (csvFileName, 'rU')
  myReader = csv.reader(csvFile)
  header = myReader.next()
  print "Header fields:", header
  
  myReader = csv.DictReader( csvFile, fieldnames = header) 
  
  # far too fancy regex for my tastes.
  # grabs words, makes the tag the last word prior to ".csv"
  fileTag = re.findall(r"[\w']+", csvFileName)[-2:-1][0]
  
  jsonFileCount = 0
  
  def writeNRecords(n):
    jsonFileName = jsonFileArray[0] + "_" + str(jsonFileCount) + "." + jsonFileArray[1]
    jsonFile = open( jsonFileName, 'w')  
    count = 0
    jsonFile.write("{\"docs\": [")
    for row in myReader:
      if count != 0:
        jsonFile.write(", ")
      row['tag'] = fileTag
      for key in row:
        try:
          row[key] = int(row[key])
        except:
          pass
      parsedJson = json.dumps( row )
      jsonFile.write(parsedJson)
      count += 1
      if 0 == (count % n):
        break
    jsonFile.write("] }")
    print "up to 10,000 JSON records saved to: ", jsonFileName  
    return (jsonFileCount + 1)
  
  for x in range(0,1790):
    jsonFileCount = writeNRecords(10000)
  
  
new_contents: #!/usr/bin/env python
  import sys
  import csv
  import json
  import re
  
  if len(sys.argv) != 3:
    print 'Incorrect number of arguments.'
    print 'Usage: csv_to_json.py path_to_csv path_to_json'
    exit()
  
  print 'Argument List:', str(sys.argv)
  csvFileName = sys.argv[1]
  jsonFileArray = sys.argv[2].split(".")
  
  csvFile = open (csvFileName, 'rU')
  myReader = csv.reader(csvFile)
  header = myReader.next()
  print "Header fields:", header
  
  myReader = csv.DictReader( csvFile, fieldnames = header) 
  
  # far too fancy regex for my tastes.
  # grabs words, makes the tag the last word prior to ".csv"
  fileTag = re.findall(r"[\w']+", csvFileName)[-2:-1][0]
  
  jsonFileCount = 0
  
  def writeNRecords(n):
    jsonFileName = jsonFileArray[0] + "_" + str(jsonFileCount) + "." + jsonFileArray[1]
    jsonFile = open( jsonFileName, 'w')  
    count = 0
    jsonFile.write("{\"docs\": [")
    for row in myReader:
      if count != 0:
        jsonFile.write(", ")
      row['type'] = fileTag
      for key in row:
        try:
          row[key] = int(row[key])
        except:
          pass
      parsedJson = json.dumps( row )
      jsonFile.write(parsedJson)
      count += 1
      if 0 == (count % n):
        break
    jsonFile.write("] }")
    print "up to 10,000 JSON records saved to: ", jsonFileName  
    return (jsonFileCount + 1)
  
  for x in range(0,1792):
    jsonFileCount = writeNRecords(10000)
  
  
subject: change tag to type for all records