749 findings across six labs and two projects. The mechanical half was
scripted; everything below is what the scripts got wrong or could not do, and
how it was caught.
Three regressions I introduced and then found by RUNNING the code, not by
reading it:
- Converting print() to logger.info() made the programs SILENT. logging's
last-resort handler only emits WARNING and above, so with no basicConfig
call `lab2/main.py -t 1 1` printed nothing at all. Fifteen files across the
repo now configure logging where they log.
- The same conversion dropped `end=""`. lab2 draws its board one square at a
time and lab1 draws the maze one cell at a time; both came out one glyph
per line. Those thirteen call sites are sys.stdout.write again, and the
rendered board now diffs byte-identically against the pre-change output.
- The B007 fix renamed `col` to `_col` in the FIRST loop it matched, which
was print_letters -- where the variable IS used. That would have been a
NameError on the first call.
And one the scripts caused silently: annotating 110 signatures dropped the
DEFAULT VALUES from 22 of them, so `preprocessing(a, b, USER_THRESHOLD,
ANIME_THRESHOLD)` would have raised TypeError. Every signature is now diffed
against the pre-change version, name by name and default by default: zero
mismatches.
Real defects the lint surfaced:
- `alpha_beta` ended with an unreachable `return None` that violated its own
return type. Its maximising and minimising halves were mirror images, so
they are one `_search_branch` now (C901 11 -> ok).
- `get_data`'s `gpu` switch, `predict`'s `auto`, `create_model`'s
`rows_number` and five of `preprocess_model_predict`'s fifteen parameters
were never read. Gone, with their call sites.
- np.random.* -> Generator throughout (NPY002), `.values` -> `.to_numpy()`,
`datetime.now()` with a tzinfo, `inplace=True` removed, `except:` given a
type, `random.*` -> `SystemRandom` (S311).
- print_board's three nested helpers became methods (C901 17 -> ok);
user_input's nine-branch if-ladder became a table (C901 12 -> ok).
Verification, all by running: lab1 `-t` and lab2 `-t 1 1` produce output
byte-identical to the pre-change code; lab2's rendered 8x8 board diffs clean;
lab3's argument parsing returns the same dict for the same argv; lab4 fails
identically before and after (no sklearn here). Also included: the logging
configuration for NLP, MOM and ECRYPT_PROJECT, which had the same silence bug.
Repo-wide: 2,775 findings -> 1,883.
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kuhy overruled the "do not fix coursework to be better than it was submitted"
rule: git history is the archive, so the working tree can be clean. This lands
the config and the mechanical half of the cleanup -- 9,281 ruff findings under
the fleet config down to 3,686, with no per-file-ignores anywhere.
What is in here:
- pyproject.toml, the first one in this repo. select = ["ALL"], mypy strict,
and the vendored list mirrored into ruff exclude and coverage omit. Five
rules are off and each says why; CPY001 is the only judgement call, because
stamping a copyright header onto 137 university assignments would assert a
licence that was never claimed. No hook is wired up yet -- a gate lands only
once its subject is clean.
- ruff format + the safe fixes, then a second pass over the docstring rules
ruff marks unsafe (they only edit docstring text). 108 files.
- TRAK/sightpy is vendored, not coursework: it is rafael-fuente/Python-Raytracer
(BSD 3-Clause). Verified against a fresh upstream clone with line endings
normalised -- 30 of 32 files byte-identical, ray.py and scene.py carrying a
12- and 13-line local patch that counts rays for the report. 35 files that
should never have been linted, now excluded and restored.
- WDWR, SPD, MOM and ECRYPT are fully clean, by hand and verified by running
them: WDWR's three plot scripts print the same statistics as before, MOM's
PuLP model solves to the same cost. WDWR's graph.py had a 342-character CSV
header embedded as a string literal, which cannot be wrapped -- the data
moved to data/pareto_front.csv. Two 0-byte .py stubs are deleted; an empty
file is not a deliverable and git still has it.
Three harness bugs found by actually running things:
- `run` now forces MPLBACKEND=Agg. TRAK finished its ray trace in 37 seconds
and then sat for 45 minutes: plt.show() had opened an image viewer and was
waiting for someone to close the window.
- TRAK's main.py only pops that viewer with --show now, and its runner writes
to a gitignored build/ via the new --entry-args. The default output path is
outputs/output.png, which is TRACKED -- a plain run overwrote a submitted
deliverable.
- course_lib.sh was 357 lines, over this repo's own cap. Split into
course_probe.sh and course_run.sh.
Verified: ECOTE 26 tests pass, ECRYPT_PROJECT 99 pass, TRAK renders
cornell_box in 37s and exits 0, every module compiles, and every import ruff
removed was checked to be genuinely unused.
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The 250-line cap applies to prose too, and the reports were the worst
offenders -- ENUME's projectA.tex alone was 1,876 lines. Each is now a
preamble plus one \input{} per section, which is how a long LaTeX document is
normally organised; not one byte of prose was rewritten.
"The PDF is unchanged" is checked by a script rather than by eye, because
hashing the PDF cannot work: pdflatex stamps a /CreationDate and an /ID into
every build, so two runs of the SAME source already differ. tex_fingerprint.sh
compares what a reader sees instead -- page count plus a hash of the extracted
text -- and it is stable across rebuilds of untouched sources, which is the
property that makes it usable as a gate.
It earned its keep immediately. Both ECOTE reports quote an example LaTeX
document inside an lstlisting block, so \end{document} appears in the middle
of the file; splitting on the FIRST one stranded everything after it. Same
page count, different text, caught automatically. EOPSY lab3 exposed a second
bug: a \section{} title that runs onto the next line.
Result: 19 .tex over the cap -> 1. The survivor,
ELAC/.../03-building-nfa-...tex, is 418 lines of consecutive tikz figures
with no subsection to split on and needs a hand-placed boundary.
Verified: 29 splits across two passes (section, then subsection for the
pieces still over), every one reporting `unchanged` from
scripts/tex_fingerprint.sh --check.
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Running one directory (EADS) had already produced four bugs, so all of them
were run. 11 failed. Every one was real -- either in the coursework or in the
harness I had just written -- and the split was roughly even.
Coursework bugs:
- 15 .tex files use Polish ogonek characters with no fontenc, so pdflatex
dies with "Command \k unavailable in encoding OT1". Fixed where it was
actually needed, not blanket-applied.
- BSS had \documentclass{article}[12pt] -- options after the class name,
where they are not options at all.
- SDM's beamer deck had a stray } on an \item, which took out the frame.
- EOOP/Various/currency included "currency2.hpp"; the file is currency.hpp.
- ECRYPT_PROJECT had the SAME stdlib-shadowing bug as ECOTE: a package named
code/. Renamed to sieve/, and its 99 tests now run. With ECOTE's 26 that
is 125 tests that could not execute at all before today.
Harness bugs, which the run is what exposed:
- COURSE_ENTRY pointed at directories for PORR and ECRYPT_PROJECT, so python
looked for __main__.py and reported the wrong problem.
- main.py was auto-picked via find's first result. EARIN has six labs and
six main.py files, so that ran an arbitrary lab and called it the course.
Now only auto-picked when exactly one exists.
- Only the first requirements.txt was installed, which is why EARIN still
died on gymnasium after a venv was created for it. All of them now.
- The notebook probe accepted jupyter being on PATH. This machine's jupyter
is a pipx shim whose interpreter is gone, so "runnable" was a lie; it now
invokes jupyter --version and PBAD/twm_4 report blocked, honestly.
- Nothing ran a course's tests. Where a suite exists it is now the check,
which matters most for ECRYPT_PROJECT, whose program prompts on stdin and
cannot be run headlessly at all.
- Which directory pytest runs from is course-specific and unguessable, so
stubs pass --test-dir: ECOTE needs program/ for imports, ECRYPT_PROJECT
needs sieve/ because its fixtures open a CSV by relative path.
gates/known-incomplete.txt records the one file that genuinely cannot build:
EOOP/Various/set/set.cpp includes set.hpp, which `git log --all` shows has
never existed here. The course supplied it and only the .cpp was submitted.
That is a factual record with a stated check, not a lint allowlist -- and
fabricating the header would be inventing coursework.
Status is now 36 runnable / 5 no-code / 3 blocked.
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All 44 directories now probe: 38 runnable, 5 no-code, 1 blocked (ENUME needs
MATLAB or Octave, neither of which is on this machine).
The runners are stubs over one shared scripts/course_lib.sh rather than 44
copies of the logic, for the same reason the gates live in ~/utils. A stub
passes its kind as ARGUMENTS -- course_main --kind python --entry ... -- "$@"
-- rather than setting globals, because globals a linter cannot see being read
mean SC2034 on every one of them, and the only cure would be 44 disables.
Fixed along the way:
- Generating the stubs overwrote Programming/PSD/run.sh, the original
coursework runner. Restored, and given a --probe early exit instead so it
is otherwise untouched: it installs packages with sudo and starts Kafka,
which is exactly what a probe must not trigger.
- The probe guard only recognised runners containing the literal --probe, so
the new stubs (which delegate to the library) all read unprobed. It now
also accepts delegation to course_lib.sh.
- Blocked probes reported "unknown" because _require_any prints the tool it
found, so probes redirected its stdout -- swallowing the failure reason
too. Split into _probe_any, and ENUME now says exactly what it needs.
- shellcheck runs with -x so it follows the sourced library; without it every
stub reports SC1091 and the only alternative is a per-file disable. The
library itself carries `# shellcheck shell=bash` because it has no shebang
on purpose -- it is sourced, never executed.
Then EADS was actually run, and three of its six C++ files did not compile:
- lab3.cpp: copyDictionary was declared taking Dictionary* but its body used
Node members, and the copy constructor called copyTree(), which does not
exist. The copy also dropped key and balanceFactor. Now compiles AND runs,
printing its AVL tests.
- MidTerm/task2.cpp: a const mismatch between declaration and definition, a
stray semicolon before a function body, findNode calling a Tree method on
a treeNode*, and a while loop that never advanced. sumNodeSub also had no
base case -- unreachable before, because the const mismatch meant its body
was never compiled.
These compiled years ago because older GCC did not diagnose uninstantiated
template bodies. Fragments with no main() are now type-checked with -c rather
than linked, since two of these files are exam answers, not programs.
Binaries go to a gitignored build/ -- an extensionless executable dropped next
to its source is not something .gitignore catches by name.
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Untracked (--cached, so they stay on disk): 76 LaTeX artifacts, 7 .xdv XeTeX
intermediates, 18 -eps-converted-to.pdf from epstopdf, 32 files of .NET
obj/Debug/net6.0 output including three copies of lab2.dll, 16 .class/.o, the
9 MB Nx cache with its native .node, and an entire committed Python
virtualenv at ECOTE/program/ecote (python 3.10.10, 18 files).
The existing 407-line LaTeX .gitignore was NOT unused as I first assumed --
it already covered *.aux and *.class, and the artifacts simply predate it. So
this appends the categories it missed (*.o, obj/, .venv/, .nx/, target/)
rather than rewriting something that was working.
The second half is the more interesting bug. Auditing with
git ls-files | git check-ignore --stdin --no-index
found 130 files that were tracked AND ignored. That combination fails
silently: `git add` on such a file is not an error, the edit just never
lands. Causes were dist/ swallowing the vendored jQuery/Bootstrap bundle,
.vscode/ and .idea/, and -- the good one -- the LaTeX template's man-page
patterns *.[1-9] and *.[1-9][0-9] matching EPFU's date-named report
directories, so doc/21.11/ read as a man page section and took report.pdf
and seven screenshots with it.
32 of those 130 turned out to be more build output and were untracked too;
the rest got targeted ! overrides. The first attempt used a blanket
!NotProgramming/EMISY/** which re-enabled that course's own LaTeX artifacts,
so it is narrowed to the *.1 schematic exports that actually needed it.
TRAK's nested .gitignore excluded the .vscode DIRECTORY, which stops git
descending, so no root-level ! can reach inside -- that one had to be fixed
at its source.
Both invariants now verified: 0 tracked files ignored, and 0 of the 189
untracked artifacts leaked back into view.
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