Merge pull request #168 from openstates/clean-multi-whitespce-from-query

Remove extra whitespace from query

Author: alexobaseki

Diff for: CHANGELOG.md

@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
 # Changelog
 
+## 6.21.4 - Mar 11, 2025
+* Remove extra whitespace from query value
+
 ## 6.21.3 - Mar 3, 2025
 
 * Purge Committees to database by default

Diff for: openstates/importers/base.py

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 import glob
 import json
 import logging
+import re
 import typing
 from datetime import datetime
 from django.db.models import Q, Model
@@ -578,6 +579,7 @@ def resolve_person(
         if list(spec.keys()) == ["name"]:
             # if we're just resolving on name, include other names and family name
             name = spec["name"]
+            name = re.sub(r"\s+", " ", name)
             spec = (
                 Q(name__iexact=name)
                 | Q(other_names__name__iexact=name)

Diff for: pyproject.toml

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [tool.poetry]
 name = "openstates"
-version = "6.21.3"
+version = "6.21.4"
 description = "core infrastructure for the openstates project"
 authors = ["James Turk <[email protected]>"]
 license = "MIT"