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Fail gracefully if config lacks the mandatory main section
Currently, if a user didn't put `[general]` section in config file, bugwarrior fails like this: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/bugwarrior", line 8, in <module> sys.exit(cli()) ~~~^^ File "/usr/lib/python3.14/site-packages/click/core.py", line 1485, in __call__ return self.main(*args, **kwargs) ~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File "/usr/lib/python3.14/site-packages/click/core.py", line 1406, in main rv = self.invoke(ctx) File "/usr/lib/python3.14/site-packages/click/core.py", line 1873, in invoke return _process_result(sub_ctx.command.invoke(sub_ctx)) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^ File "/usr/lib/python3.14/site-packages/click/core.py", line 1269, in invoke return ctx.invoke(self.callback, **ctx.params) ~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File "/usr/lib/python3.14/site-packages/click/core.py", line 824, in invoke return callback(*args, **kwargs) File "/usr/lib/python3.14/site-packages/click/decorators.py", line 34, in new_func return f(get_current_context(), *args, **kwargs) File "/usr/lib/python3.14/site-packages/bugwarrior/command.py", line 62, in wrapped_subcommand_callback return ctx.invoke(subcommand_callback, *args, **kwargs) ~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File "/usr/lib/python3.14/site-packages/click/core.py", line 824, in invoke return callback(*args, **kwargs) File "/usr/lib/python3.14/site-packages/bugwarrior/command.py", line 105, in pull config = _try_load_config(main_section, interactive, quiet) File "/usr/lib/python3.14/site-packages/bugwarrior/command.py", line 35, in _try_load_config return load_config(main_section, interactive, quiet) File "/usr/lib/python3.14/site-packages/bugwarrior/config/load.py", line 122, in load_config rawconfig['flavor'][main_section]['interactive'] = interactive ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ KeyError: 'general' This is confusing — it looks more like bugwarrior broke due to some API change in Python, rather than because of a user mistake. So handle this case with explicit check. Now it will fail instead like this: CRITICAL:bugwarrior.command:Could not load configuration. Maybe you have not created a configuration file. bugwarrior.config.load.ErrConfigLacksSection: Configuration lacks section "general"
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bugwarrior/command.py

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from lockfile.pidlockfile import PIDLockFile
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from bugwarrior.collect import aggregate_issues, get_service
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from bugwarrior.config import get_config_path, get_keyring, load_config
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from bugwarrior.config import get_config_path, get_keyring, load_config, ErrConfigLacksSection
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from bugwarrior.db import get_defined_udas_as_strings, synchronize
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if TYPE_CHECKING:
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) -> "Config":
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try:
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return load_config(main_section, interactive, quiet)
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except OSError:
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except (OSError, ErrConfigLacksSection):
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# Our standard logging configuration depends on the bugwarrior
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# configuration file which just failed to load.
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logging.basicConfig()

bugwarrior/config/load.py

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config = parse_ini_file(configpath)
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return format_config(config)
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class ErrConfigLacksSection(Exception):
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"""Raised if config lacks a section"""
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def load_config(main_section, interactive, quiet) -> Config:
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configpath = get_config_path()
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rawconfig = parse_file(configpath)
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if main_section not in rawconfig['flavor']:
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raise ErrConfigLacksSection(f'Configuration lacks section "{main_section}"')
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rawconfig['flavor'][main_section]['interactive'] = interactive
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config = validate_config(rawconfig, main_section, configpath)
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configure_logging(

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