Add script to populate data

src/registrar/management/commands/populate_verification_type.py

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+import argparse
+import logging
+from typing import List
+from django.core.management import BaseCommand
+from registrar.management.commands.utility.terminal_helper import TerminalColors, TerminalHelper, ScriptDataHelper
+from registrar.models import User
+
+logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
+
+
+class Command(BaseCommand):
+    help = "Loops through each valid User object and updates its verification_type value"
+
+    def handle(self, **kwargs):
+        """Loops through each valid User object and updates its verification_type value"""
+
+        users = User.objects.filter(verification_type__isnull=True)
+
+        # Code execution will stop here if the user prompts "N"
+        TerminalHelper.prompt_for_execution(
+            system_exit_on_terminate=True,
+            info_to_inspect=f"""
+            ==Proposed Changes==
+            Number of User objects to change: {len(users)}
+            This field will be updated on each record: verification_type
+            """,
+            prompt_title="Do you wish to patch verification_type data?",
+        )
+        logger.info("Updating...")
+
+        user_to_update: List[User] = []
+        user_failed_to_update: List[User] = []
+        for user in users:
+            try:
+                user.set_user_verification_type()
+                user_to_update.append(user)
+            except Exception as err:
+                user_failed_to_update.append(user)
+                logger.error(err)
+                logger.error(f"{TerminalColors.FAIL}" f"Failed to update {user}" f"{TerminalColors.ENDC}")
+
+        # Do a bulk update on the first_ready field
+        ScriptDataHelper.bulk_update_fields(User, user_to_update, ["verification_type"])
+
+        # Log what happened
+        TerminalHelper.log_script_run_summary(user_to_update, user_failed_to_update, skipped=[], debug=True)