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no-repeated-string-literal

python:no-repeated-string-literal

Structured string literals repeated across functions should use a module constant.

Code
SARJ024
Default
error
Fix
none
Languages
python

Why

Independent copies of SQL, route templates, and identifier-like strings can drift while appearing equivalent.

Fix

Extract the shared value to one named module-level constant and reference it from each function.

Before / after

Executed by this rule’s unit tests.

Before

SQL literal is copied across functions

queries.py · focus
def load():
    return "SELECT id, name, created_at FROM organization"

def refresh():
    return "SELECT id, name, created_at FROM organization"

After

Functions reuse one SQL constant

queries.py · focus
QUERY = "SELECT id, name, created_at FROM organization"

def load():
    return QUERY

def refresh():
    return QUERY

Limits

  • Only structured literals of at least 40 characters repeated across distinct functions are reported.
  • Prose, documentation scaffolding, annotations, generated files, and repeated f-string fragments are excluded.