resolving card bugs

py_legislation.py

@@ -304,7 +304,7 @@ class PY_legislation(datasets.GeneratorBasedBuilder):
                 name=datasets.Split.TRAIN,
                 gen_kwargs={
                     # rt_train  # downloaded_files["raw_text"],
-                    "filepath": rt_train #_metadata["urls"]["raw_text"]
+                    "filepath": rt_train  # _metadata["urls"]["raw_text"]
                 },
             ),
 
@@ -346,6 +346,13 @@ class PY_legislation(datasets.GeneratorBasedBuilder):
         The `key` is for legacy reasons (tfds) and is not important in itself, but must be unique for each example.
         Obs: method parameters are unpacked from `gen_kwargs` as given in `_split_generators`.
         """
+        # Ensure that the filepath is an absolute local file path
+        filepath = os.path.abspath(filepath)
+
+        # Check if the file exists
+        if not os.path.exists(filepath):
+            raise FileNotFoundError(f"File not found: {filepath}")
+
         pq_table = pq.read_table(filepath)
         for i in range(len(pq_table)):
             yield i, {