def receive_state_from_unix_pipe()

in core/standalone.py [0:0]

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

def receive_state_from_unix_pipe(logger, default):
    logger.debug("awaiting state from standard input")
    warn_interactive(sys.stdin)
    state = deserialize_yaml(sys.stdin)

    if state:
        logger.debug("got state")
    elif default is sys.exit:
        logger.debug("no state, exiting")
        sys.exit(1)
    else:
        logger.debug("using default state")
        state = default

    return state