🔒 Would I need recursion here?

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[lost kernel]

you only really need recursion when you're processing a data structure that is itself recursively defined -- but sometimes its handy for other cases. I haven't read your code yet

but if you're reading something that you call transcript_json_file, wouldn't it be easier to parse it via json.loads first?

[stable aurora]

I'm doing it

with open(transcript_json_file) as f:
        transcript_data = json.load(f)

[lost kernel]

ah, I missed that

then the next question: why not use the built-in find method?

[stable aurora]

I don't know this method

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[lost kernel]

>>> start = "hayhayhayneedlehayhayhay".find("needle")
>>> (start, start + len("needle"))
(9, 15)
>>> 

[stable aurora]

Thanks for that

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