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importlib.metadata.version() can return None in some environments (e.g. QGIS with custom import hooks). When this happens, Version(None) crashes with TypeError. Fixed by guarding the version result before passing it to Version().
The build_specific and build_update summary messages used hardcoded plural strings even when the count is 1, producing grammar errors like "1 source files given on command line". This fix uses conditional string selection for correct singular/plural forms.
Fixed three Python brace-format string errors in Sphinx fa and el locale .po files that cause msgfmt compilation failures. Each msgstr now uses the correct format field names matching its msgid.
Added early return of False when module_available receives None, preventing an AttributeError crash in version checks.
Fixed RangeIndex.arange so non-dividing steps materialize the same values as numpy.arange instead of deriving a different spacing from the interval length.
Clarified xarray's DataArray user guide so the coords list description no longer contradicts the documented coords=[times, locs] example.
I reproduced nbconvert issue #1245 on current main: an RST export with an image directive in one markdown cell followed by a block quote in the next cell emitted invalid RST because the quote was parsed as image directive content. The fix inserts an empty RST comment before markdown-cell output that starts indented, with focused exporter coverage.
I reproduced an old but still-open nbconvert HTML export bug where setting HTMLExporter.anchor_link_text to an empty string emitted an invalid self-closing <a> tag and could hide the following content. The fix keeps the heading id but skips adding the empty anchor, with a focused regression test.
nbconvert flattened markdown attachments from different cells into one shared output directory, so later cells could overwrite earlier files when they reused the same attachment filename. I reproduced that on current main, added regression coverage, and made the preprocessor deterministically suffix collisions instead of silently clobbering earlier attachments.
Fixed the auto-generated help option so its internal parameter name no longer collides with a user-defined argument named "help". The PR was closed without merging — maintainer kdeldycke commented 'AI slop', and member davidism subsequently stated the account appeared to be bot-managed and both were banned. Significant reputation event.
Requests documents Session.request(verify=...) as defaulting to True, but the implementation actually inherits session.verify when the argument is omitted. I narrowed the fix to the generated API docstring and added focused tests that lock in both inheritance and explicit override behavior.
Click's auto-generated help option reused the internal name 'help', which caused commands with an argument named help to misparse positional input as the boolean help flag. I fixed the internal-name collision and added a regression test.
When nbconvert writes markdown to an output path like another_folder/test.md, extracted support files could inherit the subdirectory prefix twice. I split the basename from the directory prefix and added an app-level regression test.
Some document URLs work in a browser but fail in MarkItDown because the remote endpoint blocks requests without a browser-style User-Agent. I updated the HTTP fetch path to send one and added a regression test to lock in the behavior.
Some prose-heavy PDFs were being misclassified as tables, collapsing normal spacing into comma-like cell output. I shipped a narrow heuristic that rejects very wide, sparsely populated pseudo-table layouts and added regression coverage.