From ac6e6539582b051d614c0c21671ec850b283eb61 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "copilot-swe-agent[bot]" <198982749+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2025 03:52:50 +0000
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Initial plan


From 8212d4fab73daf6dc947f0328b8213ebfad8cfda Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "copilot-swe-agent[bot]" <198982749+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2025 03:58:13 +0000
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Fix starting files issue by using chompSpecialFile
 instead of substr(1)

Co-authored-by: acbart <897227+acbart@users.noreply.github.com>
---
 src/blockpy.js | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/blockpy.js b/src/blockpy.js
index 23b43481..549d5daf 100644
--- a/src/blockpy.js
+++ b/src/blockpy.js
@@ -20,7 +20,8 @@ import {
     makeModelFile,
     observeConcatenatedFile,
     UNDELETABLE_FILES,
-    UNRENAMABLE_FILES
+    UNRENAMABLE_FILES,
+    chompSpecialFile
 } from "./files";
 import {uploadFile, downloadFile} from "./editor/abstract_editor";
 import {BlockPyEngine} from "engine.js";
@@ -1011,7 +1012,7 @@ export class BlockPy {
                     model.submission.code(model.assignment.startingCode());
                     model.submission.extraFiles(model.assignment.extraStartingFiles().map(
                         file => {
-                            let filename = file.filename().substr(1);
+                            let filename = chompSpecialFile(file.filename());
                             return makeModelFile(filename, file.contents());
                         }
                     ));