Clarify handling of script metadata#2089
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The linkcheck failure appears to only be for files I haven't changed... |
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The link check fix in #2084. |
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I'm not sure how to get the attention of "someone with write access" - @pypa/packaging-user-guide-editors is this the right group? |
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The specification states that only top-level comments define script metadata. But recognising precisely top-level comments is difficult, and requires a full Python parse, which (for example) the canonical regex does not do.
Clarify that tools MAY use a simple textual scan, like the regex does, but that users must not rely on comments within other Python constructs being ignored.
See https://discuss.python.org/t/clarify-that-pep-723-inline-script-metadata-recognition-is-textual/108089 for a discussion of this issue.
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