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computer-playbook/utils/env
kevinveenbirkenbachandClaude Opus 5 79ba511bb7 fix(env): keep the .env generator stdlib-only
The env generator runs on the bare bootstrap python, before any
dependency is installed. utils/distros.py reached PyYAML through
utils.cache.yaml, so `python -m cli.meta.env` died with
ModuleNotFoundError on every dev-runtime image that ships python3
without PyYAML.

utils/yaml_bootstrap.load_block reads the block-YAML subset the SPOT
files use with stdlib only. It raises BootstrapYamlError on anything it
cannot parse identically to yaml.safe_load, so meta/distros.yml fails
loud instead of drifting.

The per-line regex lint meant to guard this is gone: one hop of
indirection defeated it and it stayed green while the invariant was
broken. It is replaced by a test that runs the real generator with
every non-stdlib import blocked.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-28 19:47:01 +02:00
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utils/env 📐

This directory hosts the Python implementation behind make dotenv. For the general rules that govern READMEs in code directories see documentation.md. For the per-variable defaults that this code consumes see default.env.

Purpose 🎯

The package converts the committed default.env plus a small runtime context into the gitignored .env at the repo root. Every module here belongs to one of four roles: parse, resolve, orchestrate, write.

Structure 🗂️

File Role
parser.py Read default.env into (values, comments) tuples.
runtime.py Resolve host-context lookups (disk, RAM, hostname, GHA/Act flags, /proc/version, helper-script invocation).
builder.py Thin orchestrator that defines EnvBuilder, BuildContext, and build_env(). Walks the handler registry.
writer.py Serialise an EnvBuilder into a docker-compose-compatible .env on disk.
handlers/ One module per dynamically-computed variable. See handlers README.

The CLI entry point lives at __main__.py under cli/meta/env/. Shell consumers source load.sh under scripts/meta/env/.

File Naming 🏷️

  • Module names MUST stay lowercase snake_case.
  • Pure passthrough or simple parser/writer helpers MUST live directly under utils/env/.
  • Per-variable computation MUST live under handlers/ (see handlers README for the naming convention used there).
  • Test files live in tests/unit/utils/env/ and mirror the module name with a test_ prefix.

Import Rules 🔗

  • parser.py, runtime.py, and writer.py MUST NOT import from builder.py or handlers/.
  • builder.py MUST NOT import individual handler modules; it MUST go through the ORDERED_HANDLERS list exposed by handlers/__init__.py.
  • Handler modules MUST NOT import each other (see handlers README).