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A final terminator becomes an extra numbered line · case 01

A final terminator becomes an extra numbered line.

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ROOT CAUSE

The implementation applies an operation whose text or grammar semantics violate this contract: Number physical LF lines from one; final LF adds no record, but interior empty lines remain.

VERIFIED REPAIR

Implement the complete stated contract, including the boundary fixtures: Number physical LF lines from one; final LF adds no record, but interior empty lines remain.

Unsuccessful approach: The attempted repair handles the primary example but still violates a separate boundary of the same contract.

Case contract

Number physical LF lines from one; final LF adds no record, but interior empty lines remain.

Why this case matters

A local executable model for consumers of structured text; oracle values are authored literals, not outputs copied from the repaired implementation.

1 / The failure

Exit 1
"""Failure Map reference implementation. Python standard library only."""
import json
import re, unicodedata, json, csv, io, html, base64, binascii, codecs, struct
from urllib.parse import quote, unquote, unquote_to_bytes, urlencode, parse_qsl, urlsplit, urlunsplit
from email.header import decode_header, make_header
from email.utils import getaddresses
from xml.etree import ElementTree as ET
import shlex, string, textwrap

N = 1
observations = []
def solve(x):
    try:
        return [[i+1,v] for i,v in enumerate(x.split('\n'))]
    except Exception as exc:
        return {"error": type(exc).__name__}
def check(label, actual, expected):
    observations.append({"check": label, "actual": actual, "expected": expected, "passed": actual == expected})
check('boundary 1', solve('a\n'), [[1, 'a']])
check('boundary 2', solve('a\n\nb'), [[1, 'a'], [2, ''], [3, 'b']])
check('boundary 3', solve(''), [])
check('boundary 4', solve('\n'), [[1, '']])
print(json.dumps({"observations": observations, "passed": all(x["passed"] for x in observations)}, ensure_ascii=False))
raise SystemExit(0 if all(x["passed"] for x in observations) else 1)
Boundary fixtureActualExpectedOutcome
boundary 1[[1, 'a'], [2, '']][[1, 'a']]Failed
boundary 2[[1, 'a'], [2, ''], [3, 'b']][[1, 'a'], [2, ''], [3, 'b']]Passed
boundary 3[[1, '']][]Failed
boundary 4[[1, ''], [2, '']][[1, '']]Failed

SHA-256 / ca5391dc070fa55472f64c4ac51f0a3fa64b5cbbccd4b41203fc74b890a9d4b7

2 / The unsuccessful fix

Exit 1
"""Failure Map reference implementation. Python standard library only."""
import json
import re, unicodedata, json, csv, io, html, base64, binascii, codecs, struct
from urllib.parse import quote, unquote, unquote_to_bytes, urlencode, parse_qsl, urlsplit, urlunsplit
from email.header import decode_header, make_header
from email.utils import getaddresses
from xml.etree import ElementTree as ET
import shlex, string, textwrap

N = 1
observations = []
def solve(x):
    try:
        return [[i+1,v] for i,v in enumerate(x.split('\n')) if v]
    except Exception as exc:
        return {"error": type(exc).__name__}
def check(label, actual, expected):
    observations.append({"check": label, "actual": actual, "expected": expected, "passed": actual == expected})
check('boundary 1', solve('a\n'), [[1, 'a']])
check('boundary 2', solve('a\n\nb'), [[1, 'a'], [2, ''], [3, 'b']])
check('boundary 3', solve(''), [])
check('boundary 4', solve('\n'), [[1, '']])
print(json.dumps({"observations": observations, "passed": all(x["passed"] for x in observations)}, ensure_ascii=False))
raise SystemExit(0 if all(x["passed"] for x in observations) else 1)
Boundary fixtureActualExpectedOutcome
boundary 1[[1, 'a']][[1, 'a']]Passed
boundary 2[[1, 'a'], [3, 'b']][[1, 'a'], [2, ''], [3, 'b']]Failed
boundary 3[][]Passed
boundary 4[][[1, '']]Failed

SHA-256 / cdd7f6bba4d974c8ea2142d9b6ab0a2e44a5c46f3234dadb4f6fc8ce5c716192

3 / The verified repair

Exit 0
"""Failure Map reference implementation. Python standard library only."""
import json
import re, unicodedata, json, csv, io, html, base64, binascii, codecs, struct
from urllib.parse import quote, unquote, unquote_to_bytes, urlencode, parse_qsl, urlsplit, urlunsplit
from email.header import decode_header, make_header
from email.utils import getaddresses
from xml.etree import ElementTree as ET
import shlex, string, textwrap

N = 1
observations = []
def solve(x):
    try:
        return [[i+1,v] for i,v in enumerate(x[:-1].split('\n') if x.endswith('\n') else x.split('\n'))] if x else []
    except Exception as exc:
        return {"error": type(exc).__name__}
def check(label, actual, expected):
    observations.append({"check": label, "actual": actual, "expected": expected, "passed": actual == expected})
check('boundary 1', solve('a\n'), [[1, 'a']])
check('boundary 2', solve('a\n\nb'), [[1, 'a'], [2, ''], [3, 'b']])
check('boundary 3', solve(''), [])
check('boundary 4', solve('\n'), [[1, '']])
print(json.dumps({"observations": observations, "passed": all(x["passed"] for x in observations)}, ensure_ascii=False))
raise SystemExit(0 if all(x["passed"] for x in observations) else 1)
Boundary fixtureActualExpectedOutcome
boundary 1[[1, 'a']][[1, 'a']]Passed
boundary 2[[1, 'a'], [2, ''], [3, 'b']][[1, 'a'], [2, ''], [3, 'b']]Passed
boundary 3[][]Passed
boundary 4[[1, '']][[1, '']]Passed

SHA-256 / 65b64e96f5c6fabd083abce864cb777db19eefb92bfb08bbc752dedf40de7d58

Verification & scope

This reproducer isolates one failure mechanism. Results cover the supplied fixtures. Variants within a family share a test contract and should remain grouped when constructing evaluation splits. Related mechanisms with a shared evaluation_group must also remain together; these controlled models are not independent production incidents.

Observations recorded using Python 3.12.14 at 2026-09-29T14:37:31.159010+00:00.

Case digest / 2f66b244d03d84880c40a47efd5c9545e4fd1f8c96c789e0ca84c27cadba286e