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Document file name normalization process

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Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Documentation
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
python
Domain
documentation

Research direction

No files, tests, or entry points are named. First trace how file names are normalized in the repository and identify the dataset-facing behavior; document the steps clearly and determine whether the optional cross-language helper functions belong in this issue.

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Description

Tool developers may wish to leverage the datasets from a variety of programming languages -- they will need to know what the steps are to normalize names in order to find matching entries in the dataset. (Another option: for file names that get normalized have both normalized and un-normalized file name entries).

It may be useful to provide pre-written helper functions for various popular programming languages to reduce the burden on users.

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