TypeError: long.__cmp__(x,y) requires y to be a 'long', not a 'NoneType'

[thisisaaronland]

Processing venues from California. It appears to be phone-number related? All of the phone numbers are encoded as strings but maybe this is an empty string?

dedupe_geojson -o ./ca-ca /usr/local/data/lieu/whosonfirst-data-venue-us-ca.txt
...
did 297020000 hashes requiring 36901348 pairwise comparisons
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/dedupe_geojson", line 4, in <module>
    __import__('pkg_resources').run_script('lieu==1.0', 'dedupe_geojson')
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 658, in run_script
    self.require(requires)[0].run_script(script_name, ns)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 1438, in run_script
    exec(code, namespace, namespace)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/lieu-1.0-py2.7.egg/EGG-INFO/scripts/dedupe_geojson", line 420, in <module>
    is_dupe = dupe_func(canonical, other, dupe_pairs, dupes, **dupe_func_kw)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/lieu-1.0-py2.7.egg/EGG-INFO/scripts/dedupe_geojson", line 113, in is_name_address_dupe
    fuzzy_street_name=fuzzy_street_names)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/lieu-1.0-py2.7.egg/lieu/dedupe.py", line 418, in dupe_class_and_sim
    name_fuzzy_dupe_class = PhoneNumberDeduper.revised_dupe_class(name_fuzzy_dupe_class, a1, a2)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/lieu-1.0-py2.7.egg/lieu/dedupe.py", line 344, in revised_dupe_class
    if dupe_class == duplicate_status.NEEDS_REVIEW and same_phone_number:
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/postal/utils/enum.py", line 16, in __cmp__
    return self.value.__cmp__(other)
TypeError: long.__cmp__(x,y) requires y to be a 'long', not a 'NoneType'

[thisisaaronland]

Specifically the (WOF) data is prepared for lieu using this:

https://github.com/whosonfirst/go-whosonfirst-lieu/blob/master/cmd/lieu-prepare-wof.go

[thisisaaronland]

I re-generated the input data to filter out empty phone numbers but the problem still manifests itself. Thoughts about where/what the bad data (?) might be ?