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Brings docs/ up to the revised standard page set. PLANNING.md moves into docs/roadmap.md alongside the defects found while documenting. api.md omitted: there is no API surface. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01TtaJBmFDK3GcSyuhSuZ84R
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‎PLANNING.md‎

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‎README.md‎

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## Documentation
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Full documentation lives in [`docs/`](docs/README.md):
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[Installation](docs/installation.md) · [Usage](docs/usage.md) · [Commands](docs/commands.md) · [Configuration](docs/configuration.md) · [Development](docs/development.md) · [Testing](docs/testing.md)
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[Quickstart](docs/quickstart.md) · [Installation](docs/installation.md) · [Usage](docs/usage.md) · [Commands](docs/commands.md) · [Configuration](docs/configuration.md) · [Architecture](docs/architecture.md) · [FAQ](docs/faq.md) · [Troubleshooting](docs/troubleshooting.md) · [Roadmap](docs/roadmap.md)
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## Support
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‎docs/README.md‎

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# PyWorkout Documentation
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# PyWorkout — Documentation
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Everything beyond the [README](../README.md) lives here.
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A terminal workout tracker: pick a muscle group, work through its exercises, and get timing
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and completion statistics as you go. Ships to PyPI, GHCR, and as a Windows executable.
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```text
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├── docs
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| ├── installation.md Every way to install and run PyWorkout
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| ├── usage.md Running a workout from start to finish
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| ├── commands.md Full command reference with example output
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| ├── configuration.md Adding exercises, changing reps, setting video paths
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| ├── development.md Local setup, linting, building, releasing
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└── README.md
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```
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PyWorkout/
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├── docs/
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│ ├── README.md this page
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│ ├── quickstart.md install, pick a group, finish a session
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│ ├── installation.md all four install paths
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│ ├── usage.md the session flow
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│ ├── commands.md every command with example output
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│ ├── configuration.md exercises, videos, and what needs source edits
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│ ├── architecture.md how main.py and gui.py are shaped
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│ ├── development.md contributing to the code
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│ ├── testing.md the test suite and coverage
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│ ├── faq.md skip/stats, the GPL banner, what gui.py is
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│ ├── troubleshooting.md concrete failures and fixes
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│ └── roadmap.md planned work and known defects
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├── main.py the CLI
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├── gui.py a separate Tkinter percentage tracker
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└── tests/
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## Where to Start
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## Pages
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| If you want to… | Read |
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| Get PyWorkout running | [Installation](installation.md) |
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| Do a workout | [Usage](usage.md) |
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| Look up what a command does | [Commands](commands.md) |
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| Add your own exercises or videos | [Configuration](configuration.md) |
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| Change the code | [Development](development.md) and [Testing](testing.md) |
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- [Quickstart](./quickstart.md) — install, run one workout
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- [Installation](./installation.md) — PyPI, source, Docker, Windows executable
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- [Usage](./usage.md) — how a session flows
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- [Commands](./commands.md) — full command reference with example output
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- [Configuration](./configuration.md) — adding exercises and video paths
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- [Architecture](./architecture.md) — the shape of the code and what follows from it
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- [Development](./development.md) — working on it
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- [Testing](./testing.md) — the suite, coverage, and writing new tests
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- [FAQ](./faq.md) — why `stats` stopped, what `gui.py` is, the licence banner
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- [Troubleshooting](./troubleshooting.md) — Tkinter, Docker, `PATH`, timing
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- [Roadmap](./roadmap.md) — version 2.0.0 and known defects

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# PyWorkout — Architecture
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## Layout
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```
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PyWorkout/
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├── main.py the CLI — command loop, workout data, all session state
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├── gui.py a separate Tkinter percentage tracker
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├── __main__.py module entry point (python -m pyworkout)
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├── docker-compose.yml containerised run
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├── Dockerfile published to GHCR
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├── pyproject.toml packaging; published to PyPI
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├── setup.cfg pytest and coverage configuration
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└── tests/
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├── test_main.py CLI behaviour
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└── test_gui.py GUI components
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```
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## Two programs, not one
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`main.py` and `gui.py` are independent. The CLI does not import the GUI, and the GUI is not
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a front end for the CLI — it is a separate Tkinter window that displays percentage
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completion for a fixed exercise list.
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They share the project and the name, and nothing else. Worth knowing before looking for the
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integration point: there isn't one.
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## `main.py` is a single function
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The entire CLI — muscle-group selection, the command loop, timing, statistics, help output,
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and the exercise data itself — lives inside one `workout()` function of roughly six hundred
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lines.
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Consequences that show up in practice:
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- **Session state is local variables**, which is why `skip` and `stats` interact badly:
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they manipulate overlapping bookkeeping in the same scope rather than through a shared
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model. See [Roadmap](./roadmap.md).
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- **Help text is printed inline in two places** (around lines 613 and 632) and the two
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copies have drifted — one documents the `skip`/`stats` limitation, the other omits it.
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- **Tests reach the logic through `builtins.input` and `builtins.print`.** Every test in
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`test_main.py` patches those and asserts against captured output, because there is no
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return value to inspect. That is a consequence of the structure, not a testing choice.
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would unlock most of the rest.
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## Data
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Exercise definitions — muscle groups, exercises, sets, reps — are literals in `main.py`.
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There is no data file, no database, and nothing persisted between runs. Closing the program
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discards the session.
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Video paths are also literals, under a `# Video File Paths` comment, which is why the
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`video` command requires editing source to work. See [Configuration](./configuration.md).
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## Timing
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Elapsed time is computed from a start timestamp captured by `start` and compared against
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the current time on each `next`, `stats`, and `end`. There is no pause, and no persistence —
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terminal.
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Because the PyPI and GHCR pages render the README off-site, its images must be absolute
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display — expected in CI rather than a failure.

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# PyWorkout — FAQ
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## Why can't I use `skip` and `stats` together?
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and prints "You cannot use both the `skip` and `stats` commands, sorry!"
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