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⚡ Optimize file reading in idstack-learnings-delete#35

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💡 What: Replaced readlines() in bin/idstack-learnings-delete with streaming file iteration and a temporary file write via atomic os.replace.
🎯 Why: The previous approach loaded the entire contents of learnings.jsonl into memory. For large numbers of learnings, this caused a significant O(N) memory overhead and is prone to data loss if it crashed while writing.
📊 Measured Improvement: Generating 1 million rows to create a ~45 MB learnings file, max memory usage (Maximum resident set size) decreased by roughly 87%, falling from 113.28 MB to 14.78 MB. Execution time was virtually equivalent (around 4.08 seconds for both, though user/sys time distributions shifted towards user space). The atomic temporary file approach prevents file truncation if a crash happens during the write pass.


PR created automatically by Jules for task 3938025851398790547 started by @savvides

This commit modifies `bin/idstack-learnings-delete` to stream through the learning files rather than loading the entire file into memory using `readlines()`.

The memory overhead is reduced significantly without impacting performance by doing an O(N) stream to find the index and another stream to write to a temporary file while skipping the removed line, before utilizing an atomic `os.replace` to replace the old file. Memory usage dropped by approximately 87% in tests with 1,000,000 rows.

Co-authored-by: savvides <1580637+savvides@users.noreply.github.com>
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This pull request refactors the bin/idstack-learnings-delete script to improve memory efficiency and file handling safety by processing the learnings file line-by-line and using a temporary file for atomic updates. A review comment suggests replacing the bare except clause with specific exception handling for json.JSONDecodeError and adding a type check to ensure the parsed JSON is a dictionary, which prevents catching system signals and improves robustness.

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try:
d = json.loads(line)
if d.get('key') == key:
found_idx = i
except:
pass
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Avoid using a bare except: clause as it catches all exceptions, including SystemExit and KeyboardInterrupt. This can make the script difficult to terminate via Ctrl+C and may hide unexpected bugs. It is better to catch the specific exception expected from json.loads and use an explicit type check to ensure the line is a dictionary before accessing its keys.

        try:
            d = json.loads(line)
            if isinstance(d, dict) and d.get('key') == key:
                found_idx = i
        except json.JSONDecodeError:
            pass
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  1. PEP 8 recommends avoiding bare except: clauses because they catch SystemExit and KeyboardInterrupt exceptions, making it harder to interrupt a program and potentially disguising other problems. (link)

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