fixed potential error in TriMetVehicle class.

added notes

NOTES.txt

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+for developer information, check my documentation repo at https://basedwa.re/elburg/bibliotheca/src/branch/en-US/opentrans

src/__init__.py

@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+# TODO: maybe put this is a different script?
 def parse_timestamp(timestamp: int, type: int):
   from datetime import datetime
   

src/services/TriMet.py

@@ -1,6 +1,11 @@
-# Developer home: https://developer.trimet.org/ "00BA96108889B7ED8850997D7"
+"""
+TriMet API Wrapper
+Author(s): Arris Kathery <whotookelburg@hotmail.com>
 
-from .. import parse_timestamp
+NOTE: An API Key is always required to use TriMet's API. Learn more here: https://developer.trimet.org/why_an_appid.shtml, and acquire one here: https://developer.trimet.org/appid/registration/
+"""
+
+from .. import parse_timestamp # ? this creates an error with pylint, ignore this.
 
 import json
 import requests
@@ -57,7 +62,8 @@ class TriMetVehicle:
         self, api: TriMetAPI, vehicle_id: int, api_verify: bool = True
     ) -> (
         bool
-    ):  # this is basically a glorified wrapper for load_from_json() but very lazy. also, api_verify can skip checking the api key, incase it was checked before.
+    ):  #  this is basically a glorified wrapper for load_from_json() but very lazy. also,
+        # *api_verify can skip checking the api key, incase it was checked before.
         if not api.verify() and not api_verify:
             raise RuntimeError(
                 "A valid API Key is required to use Trimet's online services."
@@ -72,7 +78,7 @@ class TriMetVehicle:
 
     def load_from_json(
         self, object
-    ) -> bool:  # **INTERNAL USAGE ONLY!!! DO NOT CALL OTHERWISE!!!**
+    ) -> bool:  # ! INTERNAL USAGE ONLY!!! DO NOT CALL OTHERWISE!!!
         from ansiconverter import HEXtoRGB
 
         self.import_data = object
@@ -109,7 +115,7 @@ class TriMetVehicle:
                 "A valid API Key is required to use Trimet's online services."
             )
         else:
-            self.load_from_id(api, self.id, False)
+            return self.load_from_id(api, self.id, False)
 
 
 def get_vehicles(api: TriMetAPI) -> dict:

test.py

@@ -7,6 +7,6 @@ result=src.services.TriMet.get_vehicles(api)
 
 for vm in result['vehicles']:
   print(RGBtoANSI(
-    text=f"this is {bold(vm.type[1])} #{bold(vm.id)}.\n\troute #{bold(vm.import_data['routeNumber'])}, next stop: {bold(vm.sign[0])}\n\tboard: {bold(vm.sign[1])}",
+    text=f"this is {bold(vm.type[1])} #{bold(vm.id)}.\n\troute #{bold(vm.import_data['routeNumber'])}, next stop: {bold(vm.sign[0])}\n\tboard: {bold(vm.sign[1])}\n\tJSON: {bold(vm.import_data)}",
     foregound=vm.route_color
   ))