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Builds on #247 (branched off it, so it includes @eeshsaxena's guards and test cases) and resolves the same inconsistency, adding a strict mode for callers who want errors.

parse_transform's error policy for invalid syntax was mixed, by accident rather than design:

  • unknown transform types and wrong argument counts warned and degraded to identity;
  • non-numeric values and malformed parentheses raised bare, unhelpful errors (could not convert string to float: 'x', not enough values to unpack);
  • anything after the last ) (e.g. a stray matrix with no parens) was silently discarded.

Default behavior: all invalid substrings now warn and contribute an identity matrix, while valid substrings still apply — e.g. translate(10 20) matrix(1 x 3 4 5 6) yields the translation and warns about the malformed matrix. The previously-lenient cases stay lenient, and valid input parses identically, with two deliberate exceptions where master applied input it should not have:

  • transform type names now match exactly, so e.g. notmatrix(1 0 0 1 0 0) — which master applied as a matrix via substring matching — degrades to identity with a warning;
  • non-finite values (translate(nan), scale(1 inf)), which Python's float() accepts but the SVG number grammar does not, degrade to identity with a warning instead of applying.

Both change results (not just warnings) for those inputs; anyone relying on them was depending on parser bugs. Additionally, non-string falsy arguments (0, False, []) now raise TypeError instead of returning identity, and previously-discarded trailing garbage now warns. Trailing list-separator commas (translate(5),) and transform="none" (valid SVG 2 / CSS syntax) remain silently accepted.

Opt-in strictness: parse_transform(s, strict=True) raises a ValueError whose message identifies the offending substring, for any invalid syntax — including the previously-silent trailing-garbage case. Strictness is exposed through the loading API as a strict_transform_parsing=False kwarg (always in last position, so positional callers are unaffected) on Document, Document.from_svg_string, SaxDocument, flattened_paths, and flattened_paths_from_group. The kwarg is deliberately named narrowly: it governs transform-attribute parsing only, not other warnings emitted during loading.

SVGSyntaxWarning: the lenient-path warnings now carry a dedicated category (a UserWarning subclass, so every existing filter, assertWarns, and except UserWarning continues to work unchanged), exported from the package root along with parse_transform. Downstream projects get a stable, targeted knob — warnings.simplefilter('error', SVGSyntaxWarning) escalates exactly these warnings (including through code paths that don't expose the kwarg), and filtering no longer requires message-regex matching or blanket UserWarning suppression.

Also fixes value tokenization to split on any whitespace rather than only spaces: matrix(1, 2,\n3 4\t5 6) is valid SVG but previously raised because '4\t5' fails float().

Tests cover both modes across twelve malformed variants, separator/whitespace handling, the type-error and silent-identity cases, the warning category (including that a UserWarning filter still catches it), and strict/escalated Document loading.

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  • New Features

    • Added strict transform-parsing options for document, SVG string, and SAX workflows.
    • Added SVGSyntaxWarning for invalid transform syntax in lenient mode and exposed it through the package API.
    • Added stronger validation for SVG numbers, finite values, transform names, and input types.
    • Updated the release to version 1.8.0 with Python 3.14 support.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Strict parsing now reports invalid transform text with clearer errors.
    • SVG file parsing now closes files reliably when errors occur.
  • Tests

    • Expanded coverage for strict and lenient parsing, warnings, malformed input, and document integrations.

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Transform parsing now validates malformed input and unknown transform types. The new strict parameter controls whether parsing raises ValueError or skips invalid substrings with warnings. Tests cover whitespace, malformed arguments, parentheses, warnings, identity substitution, and valid transforms mixed with invalid ones.

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The parser now raises ValueError for invalid transform input by default. With strict=False, it warns and skips invalid substrings while applying valid transforms. Tests cover numeric values, argument counts, transform names, parentheses, trailing text, and flexible whitespace.

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- Around line 21-26: Update _check_num_parsed_values and its callers so
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- Line 43: Update the transform dispatch logic in the parser to normalize
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@mathandy mathandy changed the title Raise ValueError on invalid transform syntax (with strict=False opt-out) Fix inconsistent malformed-transform handling (with strict=True opt-in) Sep 5, 2026

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def parse_transform(transform_str):
def parse_transform(transform_str, strict=False):

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Make strict parsing the default.

Line 95 reverses the PR contract. parse_transform('bogus(5)') now warns and returns identity, but invalid syntax must raise ValueError by default. Set the default to strict=True, and update lenient tests and callers to pass strict=False explicitly.

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103-105: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Validate the input type before the empty-value check.

parse_transform(0) and parse_transform(False) return an identity matrix because the falsey-value check runs first. Return the identity matrix only for None and ''; raise TypeError for other non-string values.

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In `@svgpathtools/parser.py` around lines 103 - 105, Update parse_transform to
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return the identity matrix only when transform_str is None or '', and raise
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Reject empty comma-separated arguments.

_parse_transform_substr converts translate(1,,2) and translate(1,) into valid value lists. parse_transform(..., strict=True) then applies them without raising ValueError, and lenient mode emits no warning. Validate comma separators before converting them to spaces. SVG comma-wsp requires a number after each separator.

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In `@svgpathtools/parser.py` at line 39, Update _parse_transform_substr to
validate comma separators before replacing commas with spaces, rejecting empty
comma-separated arguments such as translate(1,,2) and translate(1,). Ensure
strict parsing raises ValueError and lenient parsing emits its existing warning
behavior, while preserving valid whitespace-separated and comma-wsp inputs.

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108-108: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Validate separators between transform functions.

The SVGMobile grammar requires comma-wsp+ between transform functions. parse_transform(..., strict=True) splits only at ) and can accept translate(1)scale(2) without that separator. Validate the text between functions and reject input that lacks valid comma-wsp+.

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In `@svgpathtools/parser.py` at line 108, Update parse_transform in strict mode to
validate the text between transform functions after splitting on ")" and reject
adjacent functions such as translate(1)scale(2) when the separator is not valid
comma-wsp+. Preserve acceptance of properly separated transform functions and
existing non-strict behavior.

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- Line 39: Update _parse_transform_substr to validate comma separators before
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translate(1,,2) and translate(1,). Ensure strict parsing raises ValueError and
lenient parsing emits its existing warning behavior, while preserving valid
whitespace-separated and comma-wsp inputs.
- Line 108: Update parse_transform in strict mode to validate the text between
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@coderabbitai Addressed in bd49235:

  • Exact transform-type matching — type names now compare by equality (after stripping leading comma/whitespace separators, which the old substring matching handled implicitly); notmatrix(...) is rejected as an unknown type.
  • Non-finite values rejectedtranslate(nan), scale(1 inf) etc. now raise/warn; Python's float() accepts these but the SVG number grammar doesn't.
  • Type check before falsy checkparse_transform(0) / parse_transform(False) now raise TypeError; only None and '' yield identity.
  • Argument-count errors name the offending substring.

Won't fix, deliberately:

  • strict=True default — the default intentionally preserves existing behavior (plus the leniency fix from Degrade to identity on a malformed transform substring instead of raising ValueError #247); strictness is opt-in for now.
  • Empty comma-separated args (translate(1,)) and missing separators between functions (translate(1)scale(2)) — technically spec violations, but each has exactly one sane reading, and some minifiers emit the latter. Strict mode targets unambiguously broken input, not pedantry.

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118-121: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Preserve stray closing parentheses in error messages.

parse_transform('rotate(30))', strict=True) splits the extra ) into an empty substring. It then raises an error for '', not for the offending ). The lenient warning has the same problem. Detect empty segments created by an extra closing parenthesis and report the delimiter or the original malformed substring. Add an error-message assertion for this case.

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In `@svgpathtools/parser.py` around lines 118 - 121, Update parse_transform’s
transform_substrs handling so an extra closing parenthesis such as in
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exists and add strict-mode regression tests for “,translate(1)” and
“translate(1),,rotate(30)”.

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values = list(map(float, filter(None, value_str.split(' '))))
# Any leading commas/whitespace are the separator from the preceding
# transform in the list, e.g. 'translate(1), rotate(30)'.
type_str = type_str.strip(', \t\n\r')

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Reject commas that are not valid transform separators.

Line 45 accepts ,translate(1) and translate(1),,rotate(30) in strict mode. Neither comma separates two transforms. Track whether a previous transform exists, and allow at most one comma only after that transform. Add strict-mode regression tests for both inputs.

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The changes in bd49235 address the validation concerns. The retained strict=False default and the accepted separator cases are intentional compatibility behavior. No further action is needed for this review thread.


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Learning: In `svgpathtools/parser.py`, `parse_transform(transform_str, strict=False)` intentionally defaults to lenient parsing for backward compatibility. Strict validation is opt-in with `strict=True`.

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101-101: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Include transform_substr in unknown-transform errors.

In strict mode, parse_transform('bogus(5)', strict=True) raises Unknown SVG transform type: bogus and omits the offending bogus(5) substring. Include transform_substr so callers can identify the invalid segment in a transform list. Add a strict-mode assertion for an unknown transform name.

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-        raise ValueError('Unknown SVG transform type: {0}'.format(type_str))
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+            'Unknown SVG transform type in {0!r}: {1}'.format(
+                transform_substr, type_str))
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_parse_transform_substr raised a bare ValueError when a transform substring had
non-numeric values (float('x')) or the wrong number of parentheses (the
type(...) split). parse_transform already warns and returns the identity matrix
for an unknown transform type or a wrong argument count, so handle these the
same way instead of raising.
parse_transform's error policy for invalid syntax was mixed, by
accident rather than design: unknown transform types and wrong argument
counts warned and degraded to identity, while non-numeric values and
malformed parentheses raised bare errors from float() and tuple
unpacking, and anything after the last ')' was silently discarded.

By default all invalid substrings now warn and contribute an identity
matrix, with valid substrings still applied -- the behavior proposed in
PR #247, and no change for input that already parsed. For callers who
prefer errors, parse_transform(s, strict=True) raises a ValueError
whose message identifies the offending substring.

Also split values on any whitespace (tabs, newlines) rather than only
spaces, as the SVG spec allows.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Uses typing.Optional/Sequence so annotations work on all supported
Python versions (3.8+) with no new dependencies.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Match transform type names exactly (after stripping leading comma-wsp
  separators) instead of by substring, so e.g. 'notmatrix(...)' is
  rejected as an unknown type rather than parsed as a matrix.
- Reject non-finite values (nan/inf), which float() accepts but the
  SVG number grammar does not.
- Check input type before the empty-value check in parse_transform, so
  non-string falsy values (0, False, []) raise TypeError instead of
  returning identity; None and '' still yield identity.
- Include the offending transform substring in wrong-argument-count
  error messages.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Per review: a trailing list-separator comma (e.g. 'translate(5),') was
silently accepted on master but treated as trailing garbage by the new
validation; strip separator characters from the trailing element before
complaining. Also special-case 'none' (valid SVG 2 / CSS transform
syntax meaning no transform) to return identity silently instead of
warning during document loading.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01DK6H8ZpETgPYwzQqM5n833
Reformat the module docstring (D205/D209/D213/D404/D415) and add the
missing parse_path docstring (D103). Verified with a local pydocstyle
run over the whole file.

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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01DK6H8ZpETgPYwzQqM5n833
Add a strict_transform_parsing=False kwarg (always in last position,
so existing positional calls are unaffected) to Document,
Document.from_svg_string, SaxDocument, flattened_paths, and
flattened_paths_from_group, threaded through to
parse_transform(strict=...).

Also tag the lenient-path warnings with a new SVGSyntaxWarning
category (a UserWarning subclass, so existing filters, assertWarns,
and except clauses are unaffected), exported from the package root
along with parse_transform. This gives downstream code a stable,
targeted knob: warnings.simplefilter('error', SVGSyntaxWarning)
escalates exactly these warnings, without message-regex matching or
blanket UserWarning filters.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01DK6H8ZpETgPYwzQqM5n833
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01DK6H8ZpETgPYwzQqM5n833
Tokens are now validated with a regex for the SVG number grammar
before conversion, instead of relying on float() -- which also accepts
non-SVG forms like '1_0' (underscore separators) and non-ASCII digits.
The non-finite check remains for grammar-valid overflow ('1e999').

Also per review: document strict_transform_parsing in the
flattened_paths/flattened_paths_from_group docstrings, clarify in the
Document docstring that strict errors surface lazily when paths() is
called, add a SaxDocument strict-mode test, and exercise the
top-level parse_transform export in tests.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01DK6H8ZpETgPYwzQqM5n833
Passing a filename to iterparse leaves the file handle open until the
iterator is exhausted or garbage-collected. If parsing raises (strict
transform parsing, or a plain XML ParseError -- a leak that predates
this branch), the exception traceback keeps the iterator alive and the
file stays locked on Windows, which broke the new SaxDocument strict
test's tempfile cleanup in windows-2025 CI. Open the file in a with
block and hand iterparse the file object instead.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01DK6H8ZpETgPYwzQqM5n833
The Element import in parser.py exists only for type annotations (no
XML is parsed there), so move it behind typing.TYPE_CHECKING to
satisfy stdlib-XML security linters without changing behavior.

Pin pydocstyle to the pep257 convention in setup.cfg so style
checkers stop demanding contradictory docstring formats (D212 vs
D213, numpy-style section underlines on Google-style sections).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01DK6H8ZpETgPYwzQqM5n833
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01DK6H8ZpETgPYwzQqM5n833
Minor bump for the new public API (strict_transform_parsing kwarg,
SVGSyntaxWarning, top-level parse_transform export) and the
transform-parsing behavior changes in this branch.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01DK6H8ZpETgPYwzQqM5n833
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mathandy force-pushed the strict-transform-parsing branch from 8b90625 to bcbbb74 Compare September 5, 2026 19:21
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mathandy merged commit 3f63632 into master Sep 5, 2026
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