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I have noticed an issue running this utility in a browser context using Pyodide. The problem relates to the reading of the session id from the file it is stored in. When another application modifies the session-id.yml file, it appears the the machine utility does not see the new version of the file. Initially it was assumed this was some sort of filesystem consistency bug, however extensive testing has eliminited this possibility. Therefore attention turned to the specifics of the code in this project that reads the session id. When I looked at the code I wondered about something: session id is effectively read at line 24 of the file main.py, where the default value for the --session-id parameter is specified for Click. I have a theory as to why this is significant, and the cause of the problem observed with stale read data. I think that somehow the call to load_session_id() gets reified into a module context (e.g. the Click module). This theory becuase the only plausible explaination for the observed behavior is that the session id is somehow stored in along with a module. This is because modules are cached in Pyodide and because when we tried code that invalidated the module cache before each run, the problem went away. I wonder if you have any thoughts on this, and any suggestions how to refactor the main.py code to avoid this issue, if indeed it exists.

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Your theory is exactly right. The issue is on line 24 of main.py:

@click.option(
    "--session-id", metavar="<ID>", default=load_session_id(), help=f"Override the default session ID (default {load_session_id()})"
)

load_session_id() is called at module import time — when the @click.option decorator executes. The return value (a string) is baked into the Click Option object as its default attribute. In a normal CLI invocation this is fine because the process exits after each run. But in Pyodide, modules are cached, so machine.main is imported once, the decorator runs once, and every subsequent invocation reuses that same stale default string.

The fix is to make Click call the function lazily, at invocation time rather than import time. Click supports this directly: if you pass a callable as default, it calls it each time the command is invoked. The only caveat is that Click won't display the dynamic default in --help unless you also set show_default with a static string.

Here's the fix:

The change: default=load_session_id() → default=load_session_id (no parentheses).

By passing the function itself rather than calling it, Click will invoke load_session_id fresh each time the command runs. This means each invocation reads the current session-id.yml from disk, even when the module is cached in Pyodide.

The help string was also changed to a static string since the old f-string was also calling load_session_id() at import time (and embedding a specific ID in the help text isn't particularly useful anyway).

Let me verify the result looks right:

#2

Amazing. One to tell the grandkids around the camp fire.

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/exit exit

#5

See ya!

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