Socrata isn't quite working.
Socrata request is now working\!
Added *.dat to gitignore and changed requests to get raw json by chunk.:
Fully command line driven, still no error handling.
Rebuilt the getsocrata module to be imported or run from the command line.
Reconfigured shell files.
reformed shell scripts.
Built a skeleton paging generator in BASH, will move logic to python.
Added simple retrieve in bash.
Explored the datatypes a little bit and added objectives to the README.md
Moved write out of the socrata generic requests function and changed to a default of append mode.
Finished logic for retrieving json data pagewise from socrata. Consider pickling each page and logging failures, then retrying failures. This will prevent a long job from aborting on account of one failed request.
Tested with another database successfully, added data/* to .gitignore, updated README.md
Added some other URLs to simple-retrieve.sh. Pushing for testing.
fixed a little documentation.
partially added config file retriever function
implemented complete SafeConfigParser configuration file
Merge pull request #1 from teddymcw/master

SafeConfigParser
Updated the main() function to write out lines of json serializable objects for each record. This skirts the issue of holding a huge list of json objects in memory.
Generalized the configuration data and moved the settings into a dictionary for easy key/value retrieval and better control/expandability.