current year auto

parsers/logbooks.py

@@ -672,7 +672,7 @@ def LoadLogbooks():
         message = " ! - No expeditions found. Attempting to 'people' first"
         DataIssue.objects.create(parser="logbooks", message=message)
         print(message)
-        load_people_expos()
+        load_people_expos() # by loading the folk list
         expos = Expedition.objects.all()
         if len(expos) <= 1:
             message = " ! - No expeditions found, even after attempting to load 'people'. Abort."

parsers/people.py

@@ -89,6 +89,13 @@ def load_people_expos():
     """This is where the folk.csv file is parsed to read people's names.
     Which it gets wrong for people like Lydia-Clare Leather and various 'von' and 'de' middle 'names'
     and McLean and Mclean and McAdam - interaction with the url parser in urls.py too
+    
+    This is ALSO where all the Expedition objects get created. So this is the point at which troggle
+    gets told what expeditions exist.
+    
+    Given that we need to do stuff for the coming expo, well before we update the folk list,
+    the Expedition object for the coming expo is created elsewhere - in addition to 
+    those created here, if it does not exist.
     """
     DataIssue.objects.filter(parser="people").delete()