chat et al: '.next' and '.config.yaml' are now ignored by ChatDB

chatmastermind/chat.py

@@ -7,12 +7,16 @@ from pprint import PrettyPrinter
 from pydoc import pager
 from dataclasses import dataclass
 from typing import TypeVar, Type, Optional, ClassVar, Any, Callable, Literal
+from .configuration import default_config_file
 from .message import Message, MessageFilter, MessageError, message_in
 from .tags import Tag
 
 ChatInst = TypeVar('ChatInst', bound='Chat')
 ChatDBInst = TypeVar('ChatDBInst', bound='ChatDB')
 
+db_next_file = '.next'
+ignored_files = [db_next_file, default_config_file]
+
 
 class ChatError(Exception):
     pass
@@ -45,7 +49,9 @@ def read_dir(dir_path: Path,
     messages: list[Message] = []
     file_iter = dir_path.glob(glob) if glob else dir_path.iterdir()
     for file_path in sorted(file_iter):
-        if file_path.is_file() and file_path.suffix in Message.file_suffixes:
+        if (file_path.is_file()
+           and file_path.name not in ignored_files  # noqa: W503
+           and file_path.suffix in Message.file_suffixes):  # noqa: W503
             try:
                 message = Message.from_file(file_path, mfilter)
                 if message:
@@ -235,7 +241,7 @@ class ChatDB(Chat):
 
     def __post_init__(self) -> None:
         # contains the latest message ID
-        self.next_fname = self.db_path / '.next'
+        self.next_path = self.db_path / db_next_file
         # make all paths absolute
         self.cache_path = self.cache_path.absolute()
         self.db_path = self.db_path.absolute()
@@ -274,7 +280,7 @@ class ChatDB(Chat):
 
     def get_next_fid(self) -> int:
         try:
-            with open(self.next_fname, 'r') as f:
+            with open(self.next_path, 'r') as f:
                 next_fid = int(f.read()) + 1
             self.set_next_fid(next_fid)
             return next_fid
@@ -283,7 +289,7 @@ class ChatDB(Chat):
             return 1
 
     def set_next_fid(self, fid: int) -> None:
-        with open(self.next_fname, 'w') as f:
+        with open(self.next_path, 'w') as f:
             f.write(f'{fid}')
 
     def read_db(self) -> None: