From 97136ee442de5da661b0bd965ef1c4054080a56b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Travis Abendshien <46939827+CyanVoxel@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2025 02:04:59 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] fix: deepcopy lists from json

---
 src/tagstudio/core/macro_parser.py | 12 ++++++++----
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/tagstudio/core/macro_parser.py b/src/tagstudio/core/macro_parser.py
index 15752412..00175ada 100644
--- a/src/tagstudio/core/macro_parser.py
+++ b/src/tagstudio/core/macro_parser.py
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 # Created for TagStudio: https://github.com/CyanVoxel/TagStudio
 
 import json
+from copy import deepcopy
 from enum import StrEnum
 from pathlib import Path
 from typing import TYPE_CHECKING, Any, override
@@ -327,7 +328,7 @@ def _import_data(table: dict[str, Any], table_key: str, filepath: Path) -> list[
                             # If no delimiter is provided, assume the string is a single tag
                             tag_strings.append(content_value)
                     else:
-                        tag_strings = content_value
+                        tag_strings = deepcopy(content_value)
 
                     # Remove a prefix (if given) from all tags strings (if any)
                     prefix = str(obj.get(PREFIX, ""))
@@ -348,6 +349,8 @@ def _import_data(table: dict[str, Any], table_key: str, filepath: Path) -> list[
                                 tag_strings.remove(map_key)
                         tag_strings.extend(mapped)
 
+                    tag_strings = [t.strip() for t in tag_strings if t.strip()]
+
                     logger.info("[MacroParser] Found tags", tag_strings=tag_strings)
                     results.append(
                         AddTagInstruction(
@@ -429,15 +432,16 @@ def _fill_template(
     """
     key = template_key or table_key
     value = table.get(table_key, "")
+    template_ = template
 
     if isinstance(value, dict):
         for v in value:
             normalized_key: str = f"{key}[{str(v)}]"
-            template.replace(f"{{{normalized_key}}}", f"{{{str(v)}}}")
-            template = _fill_template(template, value, str(v), normalized_key)
+            template_.replace(f"{{{normalized_key}}}", f"{{{str(v)}}}")
+            template_ = _fill_template(template_, value, str(v), normalized_key)
 
     value = str(value)
-    return template.replace(f"{{{key}}}", f"{value}")
+    return template_.replace(f"{{{key}}}", f"{value}")
 
 
 def exec_instructions(library: "Library", entry_id: int, results: list[Instruction]) -> None: