def str_or_list_parser()

in single-rai-job/src/run_rai.py [0:0]

• 8 lines of code
• 3 McCabe index (conditional complexity)

def str_or_list_parser(target: str) -> Union[str, list]:
    try:
        decoded = json.loads(target)
        if not isinstance(decoded, list):
            raise ValueError("Supplied JSON string not list: {0}".format(target))
        return decoded
    except json.JSONDecodeError:
        # String, but need to get rid of quotes
        return target.strip('"').strip("'")