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opener line is blank before it and whose closer line is blank after it
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line left holding a bare delimiter goes with it.

Five files keep their comments behind a nocheck marker instead. Four are
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tile, so deleting them would delete configuration.

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"""Lint guard: a project file MUST NOT contain its own relative path
from the repo root as a string literal anywhere in its content.
Background
==========
Hard-coded self-path references rot the moment the file is renamed or
moved: a header comment like ``# utils/foo/bar.py`` at the top of a
module, a docstring referring to ``utils/foo/bar.py``, or a docs entry
linking ``utils/foo/bar.py`` from inside ``utils/foo/bar.py`` itself
all silently desync from reality after the next ``git mv``. Cross-file
references survive moves (the link target updates with the renamed file
on the other side), but self-references survive nothing.
Detection
=========
For every file the project tracks (via :func:`utils.cache.files.iter_project_files`),
the lint computes the file's POSIX-style relative path from
``PROJECT_ROOT`` and reports any line whose text contains that path as
a substring.
Scope and exemptions
====================
* Files at the repo root (relative path without any ``/`` separator)
are exempt: a bare filename like ``Makefile`` or ``pyproject.toml``
appears in too many cross-references to flag meaningfully, and it
has no directory part to drift away from.
* The lint test itself is exempt — its docstring legitimately spells
out the rule and the example shapes that fire.
* Symlinks point elsewhere by definition; their text is the link target,
not file-local content.
* Per-line opt-out via ``# nocheck: self-path-reference`` (case-
insensitive) on the offending line. Reserve the marker for files
whose self-reference is load-bearing (e.g. a static site generator
injects its own source path into the rendered output) and document
the reason next to the marker.
Caching
=======
File reads route through :func:`utils.cache.files.read_text`, so the
sweep adds no fresh disk I/O when other lints have already touched the
same files in this ``make test`` run.
"""
from __future__ import annotations
import unittest
from pathlib import Path
from utils.annotations.suppress import line_has_rule
from utils.cache.files import PROJECT_ROOT, iter_project_files, read_text
SUPPRESS_RULE = "self-path-reference"
# docstring; flagging it would force a useless ``nocheck`` on every
_EXEMPT_PATHS: frozenset[str] = frozenset(
{
"tests/lint/repository/test_no_self_path_reference.py",
}
)
def _scan_file(abs_path: Path, rel_str: str) -> list[str]:
"""Return ``rel_str:lineno: ...`` failure lines for *abs_path*.
Empty list means the file is clean. Reads route through the
project-wide cached text reader.
"""
try:
text = read_text(str(abs_path))
except (OSError, UnicodeDecodeError):
return []
failures: list[str] = []
for lineno, line in enumerate(text.splitlines(), start=1):
if rel_str not in line:
continue
if line_has_rule(line, SUPPRESS_RULE):
continue
failures.append(f"{rel_str}:{lineno}: contains its own path as a string")
return failures
class TestNoSelfPathReference(unittest.TestCase):
def test_no_self_path_reference(self) -> None:
project_root = Path(str(PROJECT_ROOT))
offenders: list[str] = []
for path_str in iter_project_files():
abs_path = Path(path_str)
if abs_path.is_symlink():
continue
try:
rel = abs_path.relative_to(project_root)
except ValueError:
continue
rel_str = rel.as_posix()
if "/" not in rel_str:
continue
if rel_str in _EXEMPT_PATHS:
continue
if rel.parts and rel.parts[0].endswith(".egg-info"):
continue
offenders.extend(_scan_file(abs_path, rel_str))
if offenders:
self.fail(
f"{len(offenders)} self-path reference(s) found "
"(file contains its own relative path as a string; "
"remove the literal or mark with "
"'# nocheck: self-path-reference'):\n"
+ "\n".join(f" - {o}" for o in offenders)
)
if __name__ == "__main__": # pragma: no cover
unittest.main()