[Proposal] Add a check for none/multiple positional arguments
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Description
The current behaviour of python -m mccabe (no positional argument provided) is an IndexError
File "/home/junior/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/mccabe.py", line 327, in main
code = _read(args[0])
IndexError: list index out of range
Also, for python -m mccabe file1 file2 it just ignores file2.
Would it be possible to add a check for a missing positional argument, and another for multiple ones?
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Start at the main entry point in mccabe.py around line 327, using the python -m mccabe commands shown in the report to reproduce both cases. Done means missing and multiple positional arguments are handled explicitly rather than raising IndexError or silently ignoring an argument.
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- python
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- cli
- Issue type
- Bug
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