""" make_messy.py — Reproducibly generate a realistically messy 500-row CSV. Simulates the kind of "customer orders" export you actually receive from a legacy CRM: mixed date formats, duplicate rows, casing/whitespace noise, sentinel nulls, and amounts that are text, not numbers. Every row is produced from seed=42, so re-running the script always yields the exact same file. The output is deliberately written with `csv` (no pandas) so the mess is preserved verbatim — e.g. "NEW YORK" stays uppercase. Usage: python make_messy.py [output.csv] """ from __future__ import annotations import csv import datetime import random from pathlib import Path SEED = 42 N_ROWS = 500 CITIES = [ "New York", "Chicago", "Houston", "Phoenix", "Philadelphia", "San Antonio", "San Diego", "Dallas", "San Jose", "Austin", "Jacksonville", "Columbus", "Charlotte", "San Francisco", "Seattle", "Denver", ] FIRST = ["James", "Mary", "John", "Patricia", "Robert", "Jennifer", "Michael", "Linda", "David", "Elizabeth", "William", "Barbara", "Richard", "Susan", "Joseph", "Jessica", "Thomas", "Sarah", "Charles", "Karen"] LAST = ["Smith", "Johnson", "Williams", "Brown", "Jones", "Garcia", "Miller", "Davis", "Rodriguez", "Martinez", "Hernandez", "Lopez", "Gonzalez", "Wilson", "Anderson", "Thomas", "Taylor", "Moore", "Jackson", "Martin"] PAYMENTS = ["visa", "mastercard", "amex", "paypal", "bank_transfer"] STATUSES = ["pending", "shipped", "delivered", "cancelled", "refunded"] DATE_FORMATS = [ lambda d: d.strftime("%Y-%m-%d"), # 2024-03-01 lambda d: d.strftime("%m/%d/%Y"), # 03/01/2024 lambda d: d.strftime("%d/%m/%Y"), # 01/03/2024 (ambiguous!) lambda d: d.strftime("%b %d, %Y"), # Mar 01, 2024 lambda d: d.strftime("%d-%b-%Y"), # 01-Mar-2024 lambda d: d.strftime("%Y/%m/%d"), # 2024/03/01 ] def main(out_path: Path) -> None: rng = random.Random(SEED) base_days = datetime.date(2024, 1, 1).toordinal() rows: list[list[str]] = [] for i in range(1, N_ROWS + 1): first, last = rng.choice(FIRST), rng.choice(LAST) name = f"{first} {last}" # casing + whitespace noise in names (20%) r = rng.random() if r < 0.06: name = name.upper() elif r < 0.12: name = name.lower() elif r < 0.16: name = f" {name} " elif r < 0.20: name = name.replace(" ", " ") email_base = f"{first}.{last}".lower() domain = rng.choice(["gmail.com", "example.com", "outlook.com", "yahoo.com", "company.org"]) email = f"{email_base}{rng.randint(1, 999)}@{domain}" r = rng.random() if r < 0.05: email = email.upper() elif r < 0.09: email = f" {email} " city = rng.choice(CITIES) r = rng.random() if r < 0.08: city = city.upper() elif r < 0.14: city = city.lower() elif r < 0.20: city = f" {city} " day = rng.randint(0, 364) d = datetime.date.fromordinal(base_days + day) fmt = rng.choice(DATE_FORMATS) order_date = fmt(d) qty = rng.randint(1, 12) quantity = str(qty) if rng.random() < 0.05: quantity = f"{qty}.0" # float-string where int wanted if rng.random() < 0.04: quantity = f" {quantity}" # stray space unit_price = round(rng.uniform(5.0, 500.0), 2) if rng.random() < 0.10: unit_price_s = f"${unit_price:,.2f}" # $1,234.56 as text else: unit_price_s = f"{unit_price:.2f}" total = round(unit_price * qty, 2) r = rng.random() if r < 0.08: total_s = f"${total:,.2f}" elif r < 0.12: total_s = f"({total:,.2f})" # accounting negatives-as-parens # (kept positive here but formatted like a credit) else: total_s = f"{total:.2f}" payment = rng.choice(PAYMENTS) if rng.random() < 0.06: payment = payment.upper() if rng.random() < 0.05: payment = f" {payment} " status = rng.choice(STATUSES) r = rng.random() if r < 0.07: status = status.upper() elif r < 0.12: status = status.title() + " " # trailing space # Nulls: use a mix of true empty strings and sentinel tokens. def maybe_null(v: str, p: float = 0.04) -> str: if rng.random() < p: return rng.choice(["", "", "N/A", "n/a", "NA", "?"]) return v oid = f"ORD-{10000 + i}" if rng.random() < 0.03: oid = oid.replace("-", " ") # ORD 10001 if rng.random() < 0.03: oid = f" {oid}" rows.append([ maybe_null(oid, 0.01), name, maybe_null(email, 0.05), maybe_null(city, 0.05), maybe_null(order_date, 0.03), quantity, unit_price_s, total_s, maybe_null(payment, 0.04), status, ]) # --- Inject duplicates ------------------------------------------------- # Exact duplicates (5%) and near-duplicates (3%: same order_id, messy # casing on a field). exact_idx = rng.sample(range(len(rows)), 25) near_idx = rng.sample([j for j in range(len(rows)) if j not in exact_idx], 15) for j in exact_idx: rows.append(list(rows[j])) for j in near_idx: dup = list(rows[j]) dup[1] = dup[1].strip().lower() # name casing differs rows.append(dup) rng.shuffle(rows) header = ["order_id", "customer_name", "email", "city", "order_date", "quantity", "unit_price", "total_amount", "payment_method", "status"] with out_path.open("w", newline="", encoding="utf-8") as fh: w = csv.writer(fh) w.writerow(header) w.writerows(rows) print(f"Wrote {len(rows)} data rows -> {out_path}") if __name__ == "__main__": import sys target = Path(sys.argv[1]) if len(sys.argv) > 1 else Path( "messy_orders.csv") main(target)