python-constricter 0.2.9__tar.gz → 0.3.2__tar.gz

python_constricter-0.3.2/.gitignore

@@ -0,0 +1,47 @@
+# Everything generated locally (the dev venv, tool caches, coverage data, build output) lives under local/.
+local/
+
+# Written next to the sources by Python.
+__pycache__/
+
+# Generated by a build (hatch_build.py, or `python -m stdlib_tables`): the standard-library tables, and
+# the tests' list of what only some platforms and Pythons have.
+constricter/fix/tables/
+stdlib_tables/partial.json
+
+# npm installs of the pinned CI Markdown tools (.github/package.json)
+.github/node_modules/
+
+.hypothesis
+
+# Claude Code's agent worktrees: other checkouts of this repository.
+.claude/worktrees/
+
+# Claude Code's sandbox bind-mounts /dev/null over these denied paths while a
+# session runs; none is a file of this repo
+/.bash_profile
+/.bashrc
+/.gitconfig
+/.gitmodules
+/.idea
+/.mcp.json
+/.profile
+/.ripgreprc
+/.zprofile
+/.zshrc
+/.claude/agents
+/.claude/commands
+/.claude/hooks
+/.claude/launch.json
+/.claude/loop.md
+/.claude/output-styles
+/.claude/routines
+/.claude/scheduled_tasks.json
+/.claude/settings.json
+/.claude/settings.local.json
+/.claude/skills
+/.claude/workflows
+/.claude/.cc-writes
+
+# Backups merge tools leave next to a conflicted file.
+*.orig

{python_constricter-0.2.9 → python_constricter-0.3.2}/PKG-INFO

@@ -1,11 +1,11 @@
 Metadata-Version: 2.5
 Name: python-constricter
-Version: 0.2.9
+Version: 0.3.2
+Import-Name: constricter
 Summary: Lint rules: every local variable is typed where it's first bound. A flake8 plugin, a pylint plugin and a standalone CLI.
 Author: Ivy Duggan
-Requires-Python: >=3.11
-Description-Content-Type: text/markdown
 License-Expression: MIT
+License-File: LICENSE.md
 Classifier: Framework :: Flake8
 Classifier: Intended Audience :: Developers
 Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3
@@ -18,12 +18,12 @@ Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: Implementation :: CPython
 Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: Implementation :: PyPy
 Classifier: Topic :: Software Development :: Quality Assurance
 Classifier: Typing :: Typed
-License-File: LICENSE.md
-Requires-Dist: flake8>=7 ; extra == "flake8"
-Requires-Dist: pylint>=3 ; extra == "pylint"
+Requires-Python: >=3.11
 Provides-Extra: flake8
+Requires-Dist: flake8>=7; extra == 'flake8'
 Provides-Extra: pylint
-Import-Name: constricter
+Requires-Dist: pylint>=3; extra == 'pylint'
+Description-Content-Type: text/markdown
 
 # python-con`strict`er
 
@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ class bodies too. Statements are read in source order, and only a name's first b
 | `LVA002` | an untyped `for` target or `match` capture                                                | `name: T` first (or a type comment)            |
 | `LVA003` | a `for` target typed only by `# type: T`                                                  | `name: T` first                                |
 | `LVA004` | with `all-scopes`: the same as `LVA001`, in a module or class body                        | `name: T = ...` (`ClassVar[T]` in a dataclass) |
-| `LVA005` | an annotation with `Any`, `object` or a generic without its parameters                    | name the real type                             |
+| `LVA005` | an annotation with `Any`, `object` or a generic without its parameters, past `vague`      | name the real type                             |
 | `LVA006` | an annotation nested `nesting` deep (3 by default)                                        | a `type` alias for a part of it                |
 | `LVA007` | a name annotated again with the type it already has, in the same block                    | drop the second annotation                     |
 | `LVA008` | with every value the name ever holds known: an annotation that could narrow to them       | narrow it (`total: int`)                       |
@@ -109,7 +109,10 @@ class bodies too. Statements are read in source order, and only a name's first b
 Exempt: comprehensions, `except ... as`, imports, `def`/`class`, `type` aliases, parameters,
 `global`/`nonlocal`, and `_`; in module and class bodies, dunder names (`__all__`, `__slots__`) and
 enum members (a base imported from `enum`, however it's aliased, or else whose name ends in `Enum`
-or `Flag`).
+or `Flag`). And what makes a type, not a value, which an annotation would turn into a variable to a
+type checker: `T = TypeVar("T")`, a `ParamSpec`, a `TypeVarTuple`, a `NewType`, and a functional
+`NamedTuple`, `TypedDict`, `Enum` or `collections.namedtuple`, however `typing`,
+`typing_extensions`, `enum` or `collections` is imported.
 
 A `# type:` comment (`x = 1  # type: int`, `with f() as x:  # type: T`) counts as an annotation with
 `type-comments`, or automatically in a module written to run on Python 2: one that imports
@@ -174,16 +177,19 @@ Options:
 | ---------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------- | --------------------------------- |
 | level            | `--level`                                                                                                                                                                    | `level`                                         | `--constricter-level`           | `constricter-level`               |
 | strictest        | `--max`: `--level=suffocate` for every path, `--all-scopes`, and the opt-in `LVA012`                                                                                         | —                                               | —                               | —                                 |
-| every fix        | `--max-fix`: `--max`, `--fix --unsafe-fixes`, and `--infer-with` each of basedpyright and ty that's installed and runs                                                       | —                                               | —                               | —                                 |
+| every fix        | `--max-fix`: `--max`, `--fix --unsafe-fixes`, and `--infer-with` each of basedpyright, ty and pyrefly that's installed and runs                                              | —                                               | —                               | —                                 |
 | type comments    | `--type-comments`                                                                                                                                                            | `type-comments`                                 | `--constricter-type-comments`   | `constricter-type-comments = yes` |
 | all scopes       | `--all-scopes`                                                                                                                                                               | `all-scopes`                                    | `--constricter-all-scopes`      | `constricter-all-scopes = yes`    |
 | nesting          | `--nesting N`                                                                                                                                                                | `nesting`                                       | `--constricter-nesting`         | `constricter-nesting`             |
 | max length       | `--max-length N` (LVA011)                                                                                                                                                    | `max-length`                                    | `--constricter-max-length`      | `constricter-max-length`          |
+| vague            | `--vague LEVEL` (LVA005, and the fixes offered): -1 none (the default), 0 one `Any` inside a type that says the rest (`tuple[str, Any]`), N from 1 N + 1, or one alone       | `vague`                                         | `--constricter-vague`           | `constricter-vague`               |
+| min python       | `--min-python VERSION` (the oldest Python the code runs on, whose syntax `--fix` writes; default: `requires-python`'s)                                                       | `min-python`                                    | -                               | -                                 |
 | type hierarchy   | -                                                                                                                                                                            | `narrower` (a table)                            | `--constricter-narrower`        | `constricter-narrower`            |
 | fix              | `--fix` (`--unsafe-fixes` for guesses), `--diff` to preview                                                                                                                  | -                                               | -                               | -                                 |
-| infer with       | `--infer-with CHECKERS` (`basedpyright`, `ty`, both: inferred types, as guesses)                                                                                             | `infer-with`                                    | -                               | -                                 |
+| infer with       | `--infer-with CHECKERS` (`basedpyright`, `ty`, `pyrefly`, several: inferred types, as guesses)                                                                               | `infer-with`                                    | -                               | -                                 |
 | show fixes       | `--show-fixes` (each fix and how it was decided, text)                                                                                                                       | -                                               | -                               | -                                 |
 | fix levels       | `--fix-select`, `--fix-ignore`, `--unsafe-fix-select` (mechanisms: [docs/FIXES.md](https://github.com/ivylikethevine/python-constricter/blob/main/docs/FIXES.md#fix-levels)) | `fix-select`, `fix-ignore`, `unsafe-fix-select` | -                               | -                                 |
+| fix plain bases  | `--fix-plain-bases BASES` (frameworks' classes whose subclasses' bodies `--fix` annotates; django's are built in)                                                            | `fix-plain-bases`                               | -                               | -                                 |
 | select           | `--select CODES` (codes or prefixes)                                                                                                                                         | `select`                                        | flake8's own `select`           | pylint's own `enable`             |
 | extend select    | `--extend-select CODES` (also report these; an opt-in code by its full code)                                                                                                 | `extend-select`                                 | flake8's own `extend-select`    | pylint's own `enable`             |
 | ignore           | `--ignore CODES`                                                                                                                                                             | `ignore`                                        | flake8's own `extend-ignore`    | pylint's own `disable`            |
@@ -212,6 +218,8 @@ type-comments = false
 all-scopes = true
 nesting = 3
 max-length = 4
+vague = -1 # the default: no `Any`; 0 lets `dict[str, Any]` through, 1 `Any` itself
+min-python = "3.11" # the default: your `requires-python`'s lower bound
 jobs = 0
 baseline = "constricter-baseline.json" # the default; relative to this pyproject.toml
 
@@ -237,8 +245,8 @@ return type or whose `return`s agree (in another checked file too), a copy, subs
 method call of a local whose type is known, and values computed from those; a loop's target or an
 unpacking's names get a declaration on the line before. `--unsafe-fixes` adds guesses, and
 `--show-fixes` lists each fix and how its value decided it. `--infer-with basedpyright` (or `ty`, or
-`basedpyright,ty`, installed alongside) asks those type checkers for what `--fix` can't type itself,
-as guesses. The full list is in
+`pyrefly`, or several: `basedpyright,ty`; each installed alongside) asks those type checkers for
+what `--fix` can't type itself, as guesses. The full list is in
 [docs/FIXES.md](https://github.com/ivylikethevine/python-constricter/blob/main/docs/FIXES.md).
 
 ### Installing and running
@@ -264,7 +272,7 @@ pre-commit, after ruff's hooks (or `constricter-fix`, which runs `--fix` first):
 
 ```yaml
 - repo: https://github.com/ivylikethevine/python-constricter
-  rev: v0.2.9
+  rev: v0.3.2
   hooks:
     - id: constricter
 ```
@@ -378,4 +386,3 @@ I have used generative AI to write large parts of this code. All of the code her
 _responsibility_ regardless: AI is a tool, not an owner of a project. I have personally understood,
 reviewed, and approved all of the AI-generated code in this repository, and **mainline releases**
 carry the same accountability to me as anything I write and publish myself.
-

{python_constricter-0.2.9 → python_constricter-0.3.2}/README.md

@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ class bodies too. Statements are read in source order, and only a name's first b
 | `LVA002` | an untyped `for` target or `match` capture                                                | `name: T` first (or a type comment)            |
 | `LVA003` | a `for` target typed only by `# type: T`                                                  | `name: T` first                                |
 | `LVA004` | with `all-scopes`: the same as `LVA001`, in a module or class body                        | `name: T = ...` (`ClassVar[T]` in a dataclass) |
-| `LVA005` | an annotation with `Any`, `object` or a generic without its parameters                    | name the real type                             |
+| `LVA005` | an annotation with `Any`, `object` or a generic without its parameters, past `vague`      | name the real type                             |
 | `LVA006` | an annotation nested `nesting` deep (3 by default)                                        | a `type` alias for a part of it                |
 | `LVA007` | a name annotated again with the type it already has, in the same block                    | drop the second annotation                     |
 | `LVA008` | with every value the name ever holds known: an annotation that could narrow to them       | narrow it (`total: int`)                       |
@@ -82,7 +82,10 @@ class bodies too. Statements are read in source order, and only a name's first b
 Exempt: comprehensions, `except ... as`, imports, `def`/`class`, `type` aliases, parameters,
 `global`/`nonlocal`, and `_`; in module and class bodies, dunder names (`__all__`, `__slots__`) and
 enum members (a base imported from `enum`, however it's aliased, or else whose name ends in `Enum`
-or `Flag`).
+or `Flag`). And what makes a type, not a value, which an annotation would turn into a variable to a
+type checker: `T = TypeVar("T")`, a `ParamSpec`, a `TypeVarTuple`, a `NewType`, and a functional
+`NamedTuple`, `TypedDict`, `Enum` or `collections.namedtuple`, however `typing`,
+`typing_extensions`, `enum` or `collections` is imported.
 
 A `# type:` comment (`x = 1  # type: int`, `with f() as x:  # type: T`) counts as an annotation with
 `type-comments`, or automatically in a module written to run on Python 2: one that imports
@@ -147,16 +150,19 @@ Options:
 | ---------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------- | --------------------------------- |
 | level            | `--level`                                                                                                                                                                    | `level`                                         | `--constricter-level`           | `constricter-level`               |
 | strictest        | `--max`: `--level=suffocate` for every path, `--all-scopes`, and the opt-in `LVA012`                                                                                         | —                                               | —                               | —                                 |
-| every fix        | `--max-fix`: `--max`, `--fix --unsafe-fixes`, and `--infer-with` each of basedpyright and ty that's installed and runs                                                       | —                                               | —                               | —                                 |
+| every fix        | `--max-fix`: `--max`, `--fix --unsafe-fixes`, and `--infer-with` each of basedpyright, ty and pyrefly that's installed and runs                                              | —                                               | —                               | —                                 |
 | type comments    | `--type-comments`                                                                                                                                                            | `type-comments`                                 | `--constricter-type-comments`   | `constricter-type-comments = yes` |
 | all scopes       | `--all-scopes`                                                                                                                                                               | `all-scopes`                                    | `--constricter-all-scopes`      | `constricter-all-scopes = yes`    |
 | nesting          | `--nesting N`                                                                                                                                                                | `nesting`                                       | `--constricter-nesting`         | `constricter-nesting`             |
 | max length       | `--max-length N` (LVA011)                                                                                                                                                    | `max-length`                                    | `--constricter-max-length`      | `constricter-max-length`          |
+| vague            | `--vague LEVEL` (LVA005, and the fixes offered): -1 none (the default), 0 one `Any` inside a type that says the rest (`tuple[str, Any]`), N from 1 N + 1, or one alone       | `vague`                                         | `--constricter-vague`           | `constricter-vague`               |
+| min python       | `--min-python VERSION` (the oldest Python the code runs on, whose syntax `--fix` writes; default: `requires-python`'s)                                                       | `min-python`                                    | -                               | -                                 |
 | type hierarchy   | -                                                                                                                                                                            | `narrower` (a table)                            | `--constricter-narrower`        | `constricter-narrower`            |
 | fix              | `--fix` (`--unsafe-fixes` for guesses), `--diff` to preview                                                                                                                  | -                                               | -                               | -                                 |
-| infer with       | `--infer-with CHECKERS` (`basedpyright`, `ty`, both: inferred types, as guesses)                                                                                             | `infer-with`                                    | -                               | -                                 |
+| infer with       | `--infer-with CHECKERS` (`basedpyright`, `ty`, `pyrefly`, several: inferred types, as guesses)                                                                               | `infer-with`                                    | -                               | -                                 |
 | show fixes       | `--show-fixes` (each fix and how it was decided, text)                                                                                                                       | -                                               | -                               | -                                 |
 | fix levels       | `--fix-select`, `--fix-ignore`, `--unsafe-fix-select` (mechanisms: [docs/FIXES.md](https://github.com/ivylikethevine/python-constricter/blob/main/docs/FIXES.md#fix-levels)) | `fix-select`, `fix-ignore`, `unsafe-fix-select` | -                               | -                                 |
+| fix plain bases  | `--fix-plain-bases BASES` (frameworks' classes whose subclasses' bodies `--fix` annotates; django's are built in)                                                            | `fix-plain-bases`                               | -                               | -                                 |
 | select           | `--select CODES` (codes or prefixes)                                                                                                                                         | `select`                                        | flake8's own `select`           | pylint's own `enable`             |
 | extend select    | `--extend-select CODES` (also report these; an opt-in code by its full code)                                                                                                 | `extend-select`                                 | flake8's own `extend-select`    | pylint's own `enable`             |
 | ignore           | `--ignore CODES`                                                                                                                                                             | `ignore`                                        | flake8's own `extend-ignore`    | pylint's own `disable`            |
@@ -185,6 +191,8 @@ type-comments = false
 all-scopes = true
 nesting = 3
 max-length = 4
+vague = -1 # the default: no `Any`; 0 lets `dict[str, Any]` through, 1 `Any` itself
+min-python = "3.11" # the default: your `requires-python`'s lower bound
 jobs = 0
 baseline = "constricter-baseline.json" # the default; relative to this pyproject.toml
 
@@ -210,8 +218,8 @@ return type or whose `return`s agree (in another checked file too), a copy, subs
 method call of a local whose type is known, and values computed from those; a loop's target or an
 unpacking's names get a declaration on the line before. `--unsafe-fixes` adds guesses, and
 `--show-fixes` lists each fix and how its value decided it. `--infer-with basedpyright` (or `ty`, or
-`basedpyright,ty`, installed alongside) asks those type checkers for what `--fix` can't type itself,
-as guesses. The full list is in
+`pyrefly`, or several: `basedpyright,ty`; each installed alongside) asks those type checkers for
+what `--fix` can't type itself, as guesses. The full list is in
 [docs/FIXES.md](https://github.com/ivylikethevine/python-constricter/blob/main/docs/FIXES.md).
 
 ### Installing and running
@@ -237,7 +245,7 @@ pre-commit, after ruff's hooks (or `constricter-fix`, which runs `--fix` first):
 
 ```yaml
 - repo: https://github.com/ivylikethevine/python-constricter
-  rev: v0.2.9
+  rev: v0.3.2
   hooks:
     - id: constricter
 ```

{python_constricter-0.2.9 → python_constricter-0.3.2}/constricter/__init__.py

@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ from constricter.offences import (
 )
 from constricter.rules.checker import Coverage, annotation_coverage, check_source, check_tree
 
-__version__ = "0.2.9"
+__version__ = "0.3.2"
 __all__ = [
     "COMMENT_TYPED_TARGET",
     "DEFAULT_CHECKS",

{python_constricter-0.2.9 → python_constricter-0.3.2}/constricter/cli/command.py

@@ -23,8 +23,9 @@ from constricter.cli.protocol import HintError
 from constricter.cli.report import Format, Result, fix_reasons, render, statistics
 from constricter.cli.runs import BaselineRun, CheckRun, CoverageRun, FileRun
 from constricter.cli.workers import Workers
-from constricter.fix import callers, fixes, installed, project
-from constricter.fix.known import Callee, Hints, Outside, Returns
+from constricter.fix.core import fixes
+from constricter.fix.core.known import Callee, Hints, Outside, Returns
+from constricter.fix.index import callers, decorated, installed, plain, project
 from constricter.noqa import lines, unsuppressed
 from constricter.offences import (
     DEFAULT_CHECKS,
@@ -397,6 +398,11 @@ def _check_all(options: Options) -> tuple[list[Path], list[FileRun]]:
             for index, run in zip(again, redone, strict=True):
                 runs[index] = _merged(runs[index], run)
             again = [index for index, run in zip(again, redone, strict=True) if cast("CheckRun", run).fixed]
+        checker: str
+        path: Path
+        for checker, path in session.abandoned:
+            name: Path = options.input.name(path)
+            _ = sys.stderr.write(f"constricter: warning: {checker} hung on {name} twice: no hints for it\n")
     return names, runs
 
 
@@ -430,16 +436,40 @@ def _called_again(
     if not (again := [at for at, name in enumerate(names) if name in found and names.count(name) == 1]):
         return runs, modules
     calling: list[int] = _calling(runs, found, again)
-    modules = callers.with_parameters(modules, found)
-    which: list[int]
-    for which in (again, calling):
-        redone: list[FileRun]
-        redone, modules = _checked_all([paths[at] for at in which], check, options, session, modules)
-        at: int
-        run: FileRun
-        for at, run in zip(which, redone, strict=True):
-            runs[at] = _merged(runs[at], run) if options.mode is Mode.FIX else run
-    return runs, modules
+    before: project.Index = callers.with_parameters(modules, found)
+    modules = _checked_more(paths, runs, again, (check, options, session), before)
+    # A caller is checked again only if a function it imports now returns something else.
+    calling = [
+        at
+        for at in calling
+        if project.returned(modules, paths[at], {}) != project.returned(before, paths[at], {})
+    ]
+    return runs, _checked_more(paths, runs, calling, (check, options, session), modules)
+
+
+def _checked_more(
+    paths: Sequence[Path],
+    runs: list[FileRun],
+    which: Sequence[int],
+    how: "tuple[Callable[[Path, Outside], FileRun], Options, hints.Session | None]",
+    modules: project.Index,
+) -> project.Index:
+    """Check the files of `paths` at `which` again, knowing `modules`, into `runs`.
+
+    `how`: the check, the options and the type checkers' session. With `--fix` a file's rounds are
+    joined; otherwise the later one stands.
+
+    Returns:
+      The index, with what their functions now return.
+
+    """
+    redone: list[FileRun]
+    redone, modules = _checked_all([paths[at] for at in which], how[0], how[1], how[2], modules)
+    at: int
+    run: FileRun
+    for at, run in zip(which, redone, strict=True):
+        runs[at] = _merged(runs[at], run) if how[1].mode is Mode.FIX else run
+    return modules
 
 
 def _calling(
@@ -487,7 +517,10 @@ def _checked_all(
             modules = project.Index({}, []) if coverage else project.index(paths)
             collecting.indexed()
         if not coverage:
-            modules = installed.with_installed(modules, installed.search_path())
+            modules = plain.settled(
+                decorated.passed(installed.with_installed(modules, installed.search_path())),
+                options.checks.plain_bases,
+            )
         return schedule.checked(
             paths,
             check,

{python_constricter-0.2.9 → python_constricter-0.3.2}/constricter/cli/config.py

@@ -1,11 +1,12 @@
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
 """The command's defaults, from the nearest `pyproject.toml`'s `[tool.constricter]` table."""
 
+import re
 import tomllib
 from collections.abc import Callable, Sequence
 from functools import partial
 from pathlib import Path
-from typing import TYPE_CHECKING, Final, TypeAlias
+from typing import TYPE_CHECKING, Final, TypeAlias, cast
 
 from constricter.cli.protocol import SERVERS
 from constricter.jsonc import is_int
@@ -30,6 +31,10 @@ def unknown_codes(codes: Sequence[str]) -> list[str]:
 
 
 DEFAULT_BASELINE: Final = "constricter-baseline.json"
+_MIN_PYTHON: Final = "min_python"
+_VERSION: Final = re.compile(r"\d+\.\d+")  # `min-python`'s: `3.11`
+# A lower bound among `requires-python`'s specifiers: `>=3.11`, `~=3.11`, `==3.11.*`, `>3.10`.
+_LOWER_BOUND: Final = re.compile(r"(?:>=|~=|==|>)\s*(\d+)(?:\.(\d+))?")
 
 
 def project_root(start: Path) -> Path:
@@ -58,36 +63,65 @@ def _pyproject(start: Path) -> Path | None:
     return None
 
 
-def _table(path: Path) -> dict[str, _Toml]:
-    """Return `path`'s `[tool.constricter]` table, or an empty one.
+def _document(path: Path) -> dict[str, _Toml]:
+    """Read `path`, a `pyproject.toml`.
 
     Returns:
-      The table's keys and values, as TOML parsed them.
+      Its tables, as TOML parsed them.
 
     Raises:
-      ValueError: The file isn't TOML, or `tool.constricter` isn't a table.
+      ValueError: The file isn't TOML.
 
     """
     file: BufferedReader
-    document: dict[str, _Toml]
-    message: str
     with path.open("rb") as file:
         try:
-            document = tomllib.load(file)
+            return tomllib.load(file)
         except tomllib.TOMLDecodeError as error:
-            message = f"{path}: {error}"
+            message: str = f"{path}: {error}"
             raise ValueError(message) from error
+
+
+def _table(path: Path, document: dict[str, _Toml]) -> dict[str, _Toml]:
+    """Return the `[tool.constricter]` table of `document` (`path`'s), or an empty one.
+
+    Returns:
+      The table's keys and values, as TOML parsed them.
+
+    Raises:
+      ValueError: `tool.constricter` isn't a table.
+
+    """
     table: dict[str, _Toml]
     match document.get("tool"):
         case {"constricter": dict() as table}:
             return table
         case {"constricter": _}:
-            message = f"{path}: [tool.constricter] isn't a table"
+            message: str = f"{path}: [tool.constricter] isn't a table"
             raise ValueError(message)
         case _:
             return {}
 
 
+def _required(document: dict[str, _Toml]) -> str | None:
+    """Read the oldest Python a project's `requires-python` allows: its highest lower bound.
+
+    Returns:
+      It (`3.11`, for `>=3.11,<4`), or `None` if the project doesn't say.
+
+    """
+    required: str
+    match document.get("project"):
+        case {"requires-python": str() as required}:
+            pass
+        case _:
+            return None
+    found: list[tuple[str, str]] = cast("list[tuple[str, str]]", _LOWER_BOUND.findall(required))
+    bounds: list[tuple[int, int]] = [(int(major), int(minor or 0)) for major, minor in found]
+    oldest: tuple[int, int] | None = max(bounds, default=None)
+    return None if oldest is None else f"{oldest[0]}.{oldest[1]}"
+
+
 def _level(value: _Toml) -> str | None:
     """Read a level's name or number as the options take it.
 
@@ -135,6 +169,16 @@ def _flag(value: _Toml) -> bool | None:
     return value if isinstance(value, bool) else None
 
 
+def _version(value: _Toml) -> str | None:
+    """Read `min-python`: a Python version, as text (`"3.11"`).
+
+    Returns:
+      It, or `None` for anything else.
+
+    """
+    return value if isinstance(value, str) and _VERSION.fullmatch(value) else None
+
+
 def _gigabytes(value: _Toml) -> float | None:
     """Read `infer-memory`: a positive number of gigabytes.
 
@@ -193,6 +237,7 @@ _READERS: dict[str, Callable[[_Toml], Default | None]] = {
     "level": _level,
     "nesting": partial(_whole, minimum=1),
     "max-length": partial(_whole, minimum=1),
+    "vague": partial(_whole, minimum=-1),
     "jobs": partial(_whole, minimum=0),
     "exclude": _strings,
     "select": _codes,
@@ -201,6 +246,7 @@ _READERS: dict[str, Callable[[_Toml], Default | None]] = {
     "fix-select": _fix_kinds,
     "fix-ignore": _fix_kinds,
     "unsafe-fix-select": _fix_kinds,
+    "fix-plain-bases": _strings,
     "type-comments": _flag,
     "all-scopes": _flag,
     "per-path-levels": _levels,
@@ -208,12 +254,15 @@ _READERS: dict[str, Callable[[_Toml], Default | None]] = {
     "narrower": partial(_lists, read=_strings),  # a type hierarchy: each type, and those it's narrower than
     "infer-with": _checkers,
     "infer-memory": _gigabytes,
+    "min-python": _version,
 }
 
 
 def config_defaults(start: Path) -> dict[str, Default]:
     """Return the option defaults in the nearest `pyproject.toml`'s `[tool.constricter]`.
 
+    And `min-python`'s from the project's `requires-python`, where the table doesn't set it.
+
     Returns:
       Each option's default, keyed by its `argparse` name (`type_comments`, not `type-comments`).
 
@@ -231,10 +280,14 @@ def config_defaults(start: Path) -> dict[str, Default]:
     defaults: dict[str, Default] = {}
     key: str
     value: _Toml
-    for key, value in _table(path).items():
+    document: dict[str, _Toml] = _document(path)
+    for key, value in _table(path, document).items():
         default: Default | None
         if key not in readers or (default := readers[key](value)) is None:
             message: str = f"{path}: [tool.constricter] has an invalid {key} = {value!r}"
             raise ValueError(message)
         defaults[key.replace("-", "_")] = default
+    required: str | None
+    if _MIN_PYTHON not in defaults and (required := _required(document)) is not None:
+        defaults[_MIN_PYTHON] = required
     return defaults