# ruff UP038: tool crashes

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- Tool: ruff ruff 0.17.1
- Rule: UP038 (tool labels the fix: unknown)
- Oracle: tool-crash
- Judge (Nemotron 3 Ultra, advisory): program-bug, severity low. The linter crashed because rule UP038 was removed from the codebase and cannot be selected, not because of any rewrite applied to the program. The program itself was never transformed, so there is no semantic difference to evaluate.
- Program: minimized from 9 to 2 lines

## Reproducer

```python
class TruthyStr(str):
    def __bool__(self): return True
```

## Commands

```sh
python3 prog.py
ruff check --preview --isolated --select UP038 --fix prog.py
python3 prog.py
```

## Observed

```
lint crashed: ruff failed
  Cause: Rule `UP038` was removed and cannot be selected.
```

## Diff applied by the fix

```diff

```

## Why the rewrite is not equivalent (model draft, verify before use)

The original class defines `__bool__`, making instances evaluate to `True`. Removing this method causes truthiness to fall back to string length—empty strings become falsy, non-empty remain true—but since `__str__` inherits from `str`, any instance’s value determines its boolean behavior, unlike the hardcoded `True` in `__bool__`. Thus, rewriting by deleting `__bool__` alters semantics for empty or non-empty string values, breaking equivalence. (Note: No actual diff was applied; the rule’s removal prevented the fix, but the intended change would have been unsafe.)

## Upstream search

Queries: "UP038 fix", "ruff UP038 custom class bool method", "Truthystr subclass str __bool__ override", "ruff lint crash UP038 removal"

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