Merge pull request #12 from biomarker-ontology/fix_python_backwards_c…

…ompatibility

fix for python < 3.10 compatibility

api/id_assign.py

@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
 # threshold for updating the local storage replica of the id_map_collection
 UPDATE_THRESHOLD = 800
 
-def process_data(data: dict | list, dbh, id_collection: str, filepath: str) -> tuple:
+def process_data(data: list, dbh, id_collection: str, filepath: str) -> tuple:
     ''' Processes the data for ID assignments. 
 
     Parameters

api/load_data.py

@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 
 BATCH_SIZE = 1000
 
-def preprocess_checks(data: dict | list, dbh, db_collection: str) -> bool:
+def preprocess_checks(data: list, dbh, db_collection: str) -> bool:
     ''' Performs preprocessing checks on the data before .
 
     Parameters
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ def preprocess_checks(data: dict | list, dbh, db_collection: str) -> bool:
             return False
     return True
 
-def process_data(data: dict | list, dbh, db_collection: str, fp: str) -> bool:
+def process_data(data: list, dbh, db_collection: str, fp: str) -> bool:
     ''' Inserts the data into the prd database.
 
     Parameters

api/misc_functions.py

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 import pymongo
 import subprocess
 
-def load_json(filepath: str) -> dict | list:
+def load_json(filepath: str) -> list:
     ''' Loads a JSON file.
 
     Parameters
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ def load_json(filepath: str) -> dict | list:
         json_obj = json.load(f)
     return json_obj
 
-def write_json(filepath: str, data: dict | list) -> None:
+def write_json(filepath: str, data: list) -> None:
     ''' Writes a JSON file.
 
     Parameters