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find_missing_authors

Identifies and prints authors present in the provided collection but missing from the local AUTHORS file. This function performs file I/O to read existing authors and outputs the difference to the console using pretty-print.

def find_missing_authors(
seen: list
) - > null

Identifies and prints authors present in the provided collection who are not yet listed in the local AUTHORS file. This function is used to audit contributor lists by comparing active names against a known registry.

Parameters

NameTypeDescription
seenlistA collection of author tuples, where the first element of each tuple is evaluated as a potential author name.

Returns

TypeDescription
nullNothing; the difference between seen and known authors is printed to standard output using pprint.