IBP banding data system: Internal maintenance specification

This class inherits from FieldItem, but it doesn't have a .scanField() method, because the location code comes from the input file name. It does have a .flatten() method used by BaseEncounter.flatten().

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class LocationField(FieldItem):
    """Represents a location code.

      Exports: as inherited.
    """

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#   @staticmethod
    def flatten ( locationField ):
        """Flatten a location code.
        """
        if  locationField is None:
            return BLANK_LOC_CODE
        else:
            return locationField.value

    flatten  =  staticmethod ( flatten )