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        # just simply need to continue updating this list to keep the
        # dictionary up to date (i.e.: we don't need to directly touch the
        # flights dictionary in main).
        (last_seen, current_path) = persistent_path.get(id_to_use, (None, []))
        if (  # flight position has been updated with this radio signal
            not current_path or
            simplified_aircraft.get('lat') != current_path[-1].get('lat') or
            simplified_aircraft.get('lon') != current_path[-1].get('lon')):
          current_path.append(simplified_aircraft)
        persistent_path[id_to_use] = (now, current_path)

  # if the flight was last seen too far in the past, remove the track info
  for f in list(persistent_path.keys()):
    (last_seen, current_path) = persistent_path[f]
    if last_seen < now - PERSISTENCE_SECONDS:
      persistent_path.pop(f)

  return (nearby_aircraft, now, json_desc_dict, persistent_path)



def GetFlightAwareJson(flight_number):
  """Scrapes the text json message from FlightAware for a given flight number.

  Given a flight number, loads the corresponding FlightAware webpage for that
  flight and extracts the relevant script that contains all the flight details
  from that page.


  Args:
    flight_number: text flight number (i.e.: SWA1234)

  Returns:
    Two tuple:
     - Text representation of the json message from FlightAware.
     - Text string of error message, if any
  """


  url = 'https://flightaware.com/live/flight/' + flight_number











  try:
    response = requests.get(url)
  except requests.exceptions.RequestException as e:
    error_msg = 'Unable to query FA for URL due to %s: %s' % (e, url)
    Log(error_msg)
    return '', error_msg
  soup = bs4.BeautifulSoup(response.text, 'html.parser')
  l = soup.find_all('script')
  flight_script = None
  for script in l:
    if "trackpollBootstrap" in str(script):
      flight_script = str(script)
      break
  if not flight_script:
    error_msg = (
        'Unable to find trackpollBootstrap script in page: ' + response.text)
    Log(error_msg)
    return '', error_msg
  first_open_curly_brace = flight_script.find('{')
  last_close_curly_brace = flight_script.rfind('}')




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        # just simply need to continue updating this list to keep the
        # dictionary up to date (i.e.: we don't need to directly touch the
        # flights dictionary in main).
        (last_seen, current_path) = persistent_path.get(id_to_use, (None, []))
        if (  # flight position has been updated with this radio signal
            not current_path or
            simplified_aircraft.get('lat') != current_path[-1].get('lat') or
            simplified_aircraft.get('lon') != current_path[-1].get('lon')):
          current_path.append(simplified_aircraft)
        persistent_path[id_to_use] = (now, current_path)

  # if the flight was last seen too far in the past, remove the track info
  for f in list(persistent_path.keys()):
    (last_seen, current_path) = persistent_path[f]
    if last_seen < now - PERSISTENCE_SECONDS:
      persistent_path.pop(f)

  return (nearby_aircraft, now, json_desc_dict, persistent_path)


last_query_time = 0
def GetFlightAwareJson(flight_number):
  """Scrapes the text json message from FlightAware for a given flight number.

  Given a flight number, loads the corresponding FlightAware webpage for that
  flight and extracts the relevant script that contains all the flight details
  from that page.  But only queries at most once per fixed period of time
  so as to avoid being blocked.

  Args:
    flight_number: text flight number (i.e.: SWA1234)

  Returns:
    Two tuple:
     - Text representation of the json message from FlightAware.
     - Text string of error message, if any
  """
  min_query_delay_seconds = 90
  global last_query_time
  url = 'https://flightaware.com/live/flight/' + flight_number

  seconds_since_last_query = time.time() - last_query_time
  if seconds_since_last_query < min_query_delay_seconds:
    error_msg = (
        'Unable to query FA for URL since last query to FA was only %d seconds '
        'ago; min of %d seconds needed: %s' % (
            seconds_since_last_query, min_query_delay_seconds, url))
    Log(error_msg)
    return '', error_msg

  last_query_time = time.time()
  try:
    response = requests.get(url)
  except requests.exceptions.RequestException as e:
    error_msg = 'Unable to query FA for URL due to %s: %s' % (e, url)
    Log(error_msg)
    return '', error_msg
  soup = bs4.BeautifulSoup(response.text, 'html.parser')
  l = soup.find_all('script')
  flight_script = None
  for script in l:
    if "trackpollBootstrap" in str(script):
      flight_script = str(script)
      break
  if not flight_script:
    error_msg = (
        'Unable to find trackpollBootstrap script in page: ' + response.text)
    Log(error_msg)
    return '', error_msg
  first_open_curly_brace = flight_script.find('{')
  last_close_curly_brace = flight_script.rfind('}')




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