def main()

in pelican/plugin_paths.py [0:0]

• 13 lines of code
• 2 McCabe index (conditional complexity)

def main():
    """
        Parse the file and generate the JSON output
    """
    path = sys.argv[1] # path to append
    if len(sys.argv) > 2:
        file = sys.argv[2] # the file to parse
    else:
        file = DEFAULT_PELCONF

    with open(file, 'r', encoding='utf-8') as infile:
        contents = infile.read()

    # This will contain the "globals" after executing the peliconconf.py.
    # Note: allow all builtins (by virtue of NOT inserting a __builtins__
    #   value into this dictionary. We have no concerns about builtin usage.
    values = { }

    # Run the pelicanconf.py code into VALUES. We do not want to import
    # this as a module, as we're only going for the variable values.
    exec(contents, values) # pylint: disable=exec-used

    plugdir = values.get('PLUGIN_PATHS', [])
    plugdir.append(path)
    print(f"PLUGIN_PATHS={json.dumps(plugdir)}")