Deletion sweep: 11 of 12 repos done — blocked on otosense/slang (no push access)

[thorwhalen]

Tracking issue for the tail of the deletion track — repos where argh is not declared in packaging metadata (so no dependency line comes off), or where it appears only in commented-out code. Each is a 2-to-45-line deletion with no behaviour change and no release coupling. One PR per repo; this issue is the checklist.

Every location below was opened and verified today.

Class 3 — undeclared argh, entire footprint in an unreachable __main__ guard (9 repos)

repo	file:line	what is there
thorwhalen/tec	tec/misc/manage_pth_file.py:233-249	argh.dispatch_commands([...7 funcs...]) — also delete regardless of licensing: these functions write to the generated, read-only package manifest and are superseded by priv pkg add-package / priv align. Actively hazardous.
i2mint/umpyre	umpyre/python_code_stats.py:346-352	argh.dispatch_commands([...]) wrapped in dol.util.ModuleNotFoundErrorNiceMessage. The real CLI (umpyre = umpyre.cli:main) is already pure argparse (umpyre/cli.py:3,183-185).
i2mint/examples	examples/airport_weather/metar_acquisition.py:80-98 (19 lines) and examples/convert_images/convert_images.py:55-57	See the note below — read metar_acquisition.py before deleting it.
thorwhalen/viral	viral/get_viral_data.py:35-40	argh.dispatch_commands([...]). 2020 COVID data prep.
thorwhalen/tapyoca	tapyoca/covid/covid_bar_chart_race.py:213-216, tapyoca/indexing_podcasts/prep.py:31-33, tapyoca/parquet_deformations/parquet_deformations.py:644-647	Three guards. No install_requires, no console scripts.
thorwhalen/ut	ut/util/ipython.py:137-142, ut/sh/py.py:12-17, ut/pstr/pronounceable_mapping.py:221-231, ut/util/callable_arguments_peek.py:365-374	Four guards, ~37 lines. No packaging file at all — only a frozen 2020 requirements.txt pinning argh==0.26.2.
i2mint/taped	taped/examples/gauge_sample_rate_variation.py:184-186, taped/examples/live_audio_pipelines.py:80-84	Two guards. Note: this repo has two local checkouts of the same GitHub remote; fix once, and flag the duplicate checkout to the manifest tooling.
otosense/slang	misc/example_slang_train_script.py:167-170	One guard, in a file outside the package.
thorwhalen/mv	mv/wip/live_qr_codes.py:519-525	One guard, under wip/.

Class 4 — argh appears only in COMMENTED-OUT code (2 repos)

Zero behaviour impact; delete so the fleet-wide rg argh audit goes quiet and these stop showing up as false positives in every future scan.

repo	file:line
thorwhalen/mixing	mixing/video/genai.py:799-802 (4 commented lines)
thorwhalen/hubcap	hubcap/examples/get_discussions.py:244-245 (2 commented lines)

Class 5 — a real edit, not a guard deletion (1 repo)

repo

what

i2mint/py2dash

py2dash/util.py:4 is a MODULE-SCOPE import argh, with dispatch_to_cli = argh.dispatch_command at :8. rg dispatch_to_cli over the whole repo returns only that definition — it is dead. py2dash declares no dependencies at all and is published as py2dash 0.0.2, so import py2dash.util raises ImportError on a clean install today. Delete :4 and :8. Also delete the guard at py2dash/dash_introspection.py:114-118.

Before deleting examples/airport_weather/metar_acquisition.py

Read lines 80-98 first and preserve them somewhere (cw's README, or a comment in cw's ingress module). It is the fleet's best motivating anti-example for cw's whole thesis: the block defines a coercing wrapper named acquire_metar_data (.split(',') on the ids, int() on the hours) and then dispatches _acquire_metar_data — the original, uncoerced function. Hand-written string→object ingress, written next to the dispatch call, wired to the wrong object, silently doing nothing.

Explicitly NOT in this sweep

• i2mint/gurgle — gurgle/terminal.py:221 imports argh inside main(), which is the gurgle-terminal console script. That is a migration or a CLI-retirement decision, not a deletion.
• addaix/raglab_bak — real CLI with an already-written sys.argv fallback (raglab_bak/wips/vectordb_manager.py:41-45, 1140-1160); repo name ends in _bak; owner is outside the landing perimeter.
• i2mint/know — its single hit is a # TODO comment (know/examples/keyboard_and_audio.py:263). Leave it; it is a good comment and it states cw's ingress spec years early.

Acceptance criteria

• rg -n '\bargh\b' --glob='*.py' returns nothing in each of the 12 repos
• Each repo's tests still pass
• metar_acquisition.py:80-98 is preserved in cw's docs before the file is touched
• Every PR links back to this issue

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Research & rationale: the canonical spec and the full fleet audit live in the private research ledger (https://github.com/thorwhalen/priv/discussions/65). Effort: medium.