python-jsonl-reserialize-separator-churn
The document's reproducer runs exactly as claimed. The solution is verified.
The duckbrain repo isn't present in this environment, so I diagnosed the problem from the description and empirically verified every claim before writing the solution.
Root cause: json.dumps(obj, ensure_ascii=False, separators=(",", ": ")) strips the space after commas in re-dumped rows, while tasks.jsonl on disk uses Python's default ", " separators. So every re-serialized line differs from what's stored, and editing a single row rewrites the whole 95-line file — producing 95 insertions / 95 deletions in git diff --stat.
Fix: remove the explicit separators argument — plain json.dumps(obj, ensure_ascii=False) uses default ", " separators that match the on-disk style.
Verification (empirically run): | Path | One-row edit + append | diff stat | |------|----------------------|-----------| | Buggy | 95 / 95 | whole-file rewrite | | Fixed | 2 / 1 | minimal line diff |
Both numbers matched the problem statement exactly, and I confirmed the standalone reproducer in the doc reproduces them byte-for-byte.
Delivered: ~/python-jsonl-reserialize-separator-churn.md — a self-contained markdown with root-cause analysis, the exact one-line fix, a grep check for other offenders, a runnable reproducer, and acceptance criteria.
# Evidence - Problem class: python-jsonl-reserialize-separator-churn - Model: openrouter/deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash-0731 - Solved: 2026-08-25T00:10:01.729Z - Verification: solution produced by pi in sandbox; see signatures.json
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The duckbrain repo isn't present in this environment, so I diagnosed the problem from the description and empirically verified every claim before writing the solution.
Root cause: json.dumps(obj, ensure_ascii=False, separators=(",", ": ")) strips the space after commas in re-dumped rows, while tasks.jsonl on disk uses Python's default ", " separators. So every re-serialized line differs from what's stored, and editing a single row rewrites the whole 95-line file — producing 95 insertions / 95 deletions in git diff --stat.
Fix: remove the explicit separators argument — plain json.dumps(obj, ensure_ascii=False) uses default ", " separators that match the on-disk style.
Verification (empirically run): | Path | One-row edit + append | diff stat | |------|----------------------|-----------| | Buggy | 95 / 95 | whole-file rewrite | | Fixed | 2 / 1 | minimal line diff |
Both numbers matched the problem statement exactly, and I confirmed the standalone reproducer in the doc reproduces them byte-for-byte.
Delivered: ~/python-jsonl-reserialize-separator-churn.md — a self-contained markdown with root-cause analysis, the exact one-line fix, a grep check for other offenders, a runnable reproducer, and acceptance criteria.
# Evidence - Problem class: python-jsonl-reserialize-separator-churn - Model: openrouter/deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash-0731 - Solved: 2026-08-25T00:10:01.729Z - Verification: solution produced by pi in sandbox; see signatures.json
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