fix: stop rejecting well-formed entries the contributor guide documents

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Two false positives, same class: the linter rejects entries that are written exactly the way the contributor guides tell people to write them.

Problem 1: an entry with no badges

README.md:233  [spanish-cities-info] No description found after ' - '

That entry is well formed. awesome-spain/contributing.md documents this shape as the format for a new entry:

- [Nombre](https://github.com/owner/repo) - Descripción que empieza en mayúscula y termina con punto.

The linter only looked healthy on that list because every other entry already carries badges, and the badges give the - separator something to sit behind. The moment a contributor follows the guide, they are told their description does not exist.

Cause. parse_entry split the line with \s+, which swallowed the single space in front of the separator:

m = re.match(r'^- \[([^\]]+)\]\(([^)]+)\)\s+(.+)$', line)
rest = m.group(3)                                  # "- Descripción."   (space gone)
desc_match = re.search(r' - ([A-Za-z].+)$', rest)  # no " - " left to find -> None

Fix. Keep the whitespace in the captured tail and look for the separator there. The parse is unchanged for every other shape: an entry still has to have at least one space after the URL, and rest is still the trimmed remainder.

m = re.match(r'^- \[([^\]]+)\]\(([^)]+)\)(\s+.+)$', line)
tail = m.group(3)                                  # " - Descripción."
rest = tail.lstrip()

Searching the whole line was the other option. It is worse: an entry whose name contains -, like - [Foo - Bar](url) - Desc., would match inside the name and return Bar](url) - Desc. as the description. Scoping the search to the text after the URL keeps that impossible.

Problem 2: a description opening with an accented capital

The description search required an ASCII letter, so Índice de organismos públicos. or Área de datos abiertos. was reported as no description at all. For a Spanish list those are ordinary sentence openings, and the style rule already asks for a capital, so the linter was rejecting the thing it asks for.

Fix. Test the first character with str.isalpha():

candidate = tail.partition(DESCRIPTION_SEPARATOR)[2]
description = candidate if candidate and candidate[0].isalpha() else None

A character class cannot express this rule. [A-Za-z] is too narrow, and the obvious widening to [^\W\d_] is wrong in the other direction: \d covers only decimal digits (category Nd), so ² (No) and Ⅻ (Nl) are word characters that pass the class while str.isalpha() correctly rejects them. isalpha() is the predicate the rule wants, and it is Unicode aware.

'²'  category=No  [^\W\d_]=True  isalpha=False
'Ⅻ'  category=Nl  [^\W\d_]=True  isalpha=False
'Í'  category=Lu  [^\W\d_]=True  isalpha=True

Digits, underscores and punctuation still do not begin a description, so - 2024 edition. and - "Comillas" al inicio. are still reported as missing one. desc[0].isupper() was already Unicode aware, so the capital check needed no change: a lowercase accented opening like área de... is now found and correctly reported as needing a capital, instead of being reported as absent.

This also drops a fallback the old regex had, where a - not followed by a letter was skipped and the search continued to a later one. Nothing in the suite and none of the 410 entries in the consuming list depended on it, and it hid malformed entries: - [Tool](url) - 3D - Modelado. used to report Modelado. as the description, which is not what the line says. The description now comes from the first separator only.

lint.py had no other ASCII-letter assumption. The remaining regexes use negated classes ([^\]], [^)]) and the string checks (isupper, lower, endswith) are already Unicode aware.

Evidence

The suite had the first bug written down as intended behaviour: test_simple_entry_no_badges asserted description is None for a badgeless entry. That assertion is flipped. Two new classes cover the rest.

TestBadgelessEntries covers the badgeless entry, a badged entry, a ([Demo](url)) suffix with and without badges, an entry with no description at all, and the description format checks that were previously unreachable for badgeless entries. Before the fix:

FAILED TestParseEntry::test_simple_entry_no_badges
FAILED TestBadgelessEntries::test_badgeless_entry_description_parsed
FAILED TestBadgelessEntries::test_badgeless_readme_lints_clean
FAILED TestBadgelessEntries::test_badgeless_entry_description_checks_still_apply
4 failed, 60 passed

TestUnicodeDescriptions covers Í, Ó, Á, Ñ and Ü openings and a lowercase accented opening, alongside the digit, punctuation, underscore, ², Ⅻ and dropped-fallback cases that must stay rejected. Before the accented-capital fix:

FAILED TestUnicodeDescriptions::test_accented_capital_openings_parsed
FAILED TestUnicodeDescriptions::test_accented_description_lints_clean
FAILED TestUnicodeDescriptions::test_accented_lowercase_start_reports_capital_error
3 failed, 67 passed

Before the isalpha() correction:

FAILED TestUnicodeDescriptions::test_superscript_digit_opening_rejected
FAILED TestUnicodeDescriptions::test_roman_numeral_opening_rejected
FAILED TestUnicodeDescriptions::test_non_letter_after_first_separator_is_not_skipped
3 failed, 70 passed

After all three: 73 passed, lint.py 155 stmts, 1 miss, 99%.

In each round the negative tests passed before and after. They were never broken, and no fix touches them.

No regression on real data

Against awesome-spain's README on main at 793896f, 410 real entries:

### BEFORE (main lint.py, both fixes absent):
All checks passed.
EXIT=0
### AFTER (this branch):
All checks passed.
EXIT=0

A differential run of the old and new parse_entry over every entry line in that file gives 410 entries, 0 description(s) changed.

Housekeeping

.gitignore now covers __pycache__/, .coverage and coverage.xml, which the documented test command (pytest tests/ --cov=lint --cov-report=xml) writes into the working tree. It previously listed only tests/__pycache__/, which __pycache__/ subsumes.

Release

awesome-spain consumes this as a pinned tag, GeiserX/awesome-lint-extra@v1.1.0, so consumers do not pick these fixes up until a new tag is cut. No version bump in this PR: the repo bumps pyproject.toml in a separate chore: bump version commit at release time, matching how v1.1.0 was cut after #9.

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The change updates parse_entry to parse descriptions from badgeless entries and adds regression tests for parsing, linting, missing descriptions, format checks, and Unicode handling. It also broadens ignored test artifact paths.

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Badgeless entry parsing

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Parse descriptions after entry URLs lint.py	parse_entry captures whitespace after the URL in the tail, derives rest with tail.lstrip(), and searches the tail for the first - separator.
Validate badgeless and Unicode descriptions tests/test_lint.py	Tests cover badgeless descriptions, demo suffixes, clean linting, missing separators, capitalization, period checks, and accented characters.
Ignore test artifacts .gitignore	The ignore rules cover __pycache__ directories, .coverage, and coverage.xml.

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Badgeless descriptions now parse correctly, but the linter can still accept some non-letter Unicode characters as description openings despite the intended validation rule. Add an alphabetic-opening check and regression coverage before merge.

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