zscripts-token-savers/scripts/plaintext_twins.py
Kelly Michels 135c585c4b
docs(changelog): give every shipped release its own section, and generate the twin (#68)
The changelog said nothing had been released since 1.0.0. Twenty-two builds
had shipped. Twenty-one entries sat under "## Unreleased" in a file with
exactly two headings, so a reader at any tag found no section for the version
they were holding.

Which release carried which entry is DERIVED, not guessed: for every line in
the region, the commit that introduced it, then the earliest tag containing
that commit. That yields seven releases - .22, .21, .20, .19, .14, .8 and .0.
No entry text changed. A verification pass compares the multiset of
non-heading lines before and after and refuses to write if anything was lost,
gained or duplicated; entries move under their release, so it compares as a
multiset rather than in order.

CHANGELOG.txt was kept BY HAND and drifted the moment the .md was
reorganised, which is the failure the plain-text-twin rule exists to prevent.
readme_txt.py becomes plaintext_twins.py and renders every pair. It also
drops <!-- --> markers, invisible in markdown and stray punctuation in a text
file - that is the whole of README.txt's diff.

The --check that keeps twins honest was never run. readme_txt.py shipped one
and its docstring claimed "the test suite runs --check"; nothing invoked it,
so a twin could disagree with its markdown indefinitely.
tests/PlainTextTwins.Tests.ps1 runs it.

That test skipped on its first run while claiming to pass: -Skip is evaluated
during DISCOVERY, before BeforeAll, so the python lookup left the flag $null.
Resolved in BeforeDiscovery, and when python really is absent the result is
INCONCLUSIVE rather than a green tick for a check that never happened.

Mutation-checked: appending one line to CHANGELOG.txt fails "every twin is in
sync with its markdown", and only that test.

tests: 243 passed, 0 failed, 1 skipped (the no-python reporter, correctly).
2026-08-31 18:39:01 -05:00

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# Evomedia.net Token Savers — https://github.com/evomedia-net/evo.zscripts
# Created by Kelly Michels · dev@evomedia.net
# Licensed under the MIT License. See LICENSE.
"""Render this repo's markdown to plain-text twins with the markup removed.
The .txt files exist for terminals, pagers and anywhere markdown doesn't
render. They are generated - never edit one by hand:
python scripts/plaintext_twins.py # rewrite every .txt twin
python scripts/plaintext_twins.py --check # exit 1 if any is out of sync
tests/PlainTextTwins.Tests.ps1 runs --check, so a markdown edit that forgets
to regenerate fails the suite instead of shipping a twin that disagrees with
the file it mirrors.
Was readme_txt.py, which did README only. CHANGELOG.txt was kept by hand and
drifted the moment CHANGELOG.md was reorganised - and its docstring claimed a
--check the suite never actually ran. Both are fixed here: one renderer, every
pair, and a test that invokes it.
"""
from __future__ import annotations
import re
import sys
from pathlib import Path
ROOT = Path(__file__).resolve().parent.parent
# Every markdown file that owes the repo a plain-text twin.
PAIRS = (
("README.md", "README.txt"),
("CHANGELOG.md", "CHANGELOG.txt"),
)
def _inline(text: str) -> str:
text = re.sub(r"!\[([^\]]*)\]\([^)]*\)", r"\1", text) # images -> alt text
text = re.sub(r"\[([^\]]+)\]\(([^)]+)\)", r"\1 (\2)", text) # links -> text (url)
text = re.sub(r"\*\*([^*]+)\*\*", r"\1", text) # bold
text = re.sub(r"(?<!\*)\*([^*\n]+)\*(?!\*)", r"\1", text) # italic
text = re.sub(r"`([^`]+)`", r"\1", text) # inline code
return text
def render(md: str) -> str:
out: list[str] = []
in_fence = False
for line in md.splitlines():
if line.lstrip().startswith("```"):
# Drop the fence markers; the code itself stays, indented so it
# still reads as a block without the backticks.
in_fence = not in_fence
continue
if in_fence:
out.append((" " + line) if line else "")
continue
# An HTML comment is invisible in rendered markdown, but its markers
# are not invisible in a text file - they read as stray punctuation.
# Keep what the comment says, drop the <!-- --> around it.
if line.strip() in ("<!--", "-->"):
continue
heading = re.match(r"^(#{1,6})\s+(.*)$", line)
if heading:
text = _inline(heading.group(2))
out.append(text)
out.append(("=" if len(heading.group(1)) == 1 else "-") * len(text))
continue
out.append(_inline(line))
text = "\n".join(out)
text = re.sub(r"\n{3,}", "\n\n", text)
return text.strip() + "\n"
def main() -> int:
check = "--check" in sys.argv
stale: list[str] = []
for md_name, txt_name in PAIRS:
source = ROOT / md_name
if not source.exists():
print(f"{md_name} is missing - nothing to render")
return 1
rendered = render(source.read_text(encoding="utf-8"))
target = ROOT / txt_name
if check:
current = target.read_text(encoding="utf-8") if target.exists() else ""
if current != rendered:
stale.append(txt_name)
continue
target.write_text(rendered, encoding="utf-8", newline="\n")
print(f"Wrote {target} ({len(rendered.splitlines())} lines)")
if check:
if stale:
print(f"out of sync: {', '.join(stale)}"
f" - run: python scripts/plaintext_twins.py")
return 1
print(f"in sync: {', '.join(t for _, t in PAIRS)}")
return 0
if __name__ == "__main__":
raise SystemExit(main())