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Description of the issue
The program dev_tools/modules.py
exits with a confusing and user-unfriendly error message if it is invoked without any arguments. At the same time, it is not obvious (or at least, I haven't found it mentioned in the docs) that not passing any arguments to it is unsupported.
How to reproduce the issue
In a shell, with the current directory being the top level of the Cirq source code repo cloned from GitHub, run the following command:
python dev_tools/modules.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/Users/mhucka/project-files/quantum/repos/Cirq/dev_tools/modules.py", line 317, in <module>
main(sys.argv[1:]) # coverage: ignore
File "/Users/mhucka/project-files/quantum/repos/Cirq/dev_tools/modules.py", line 309, in main
f = args.func
AttributeError: 'Namespace' object has no attribute 'func'
Cirq version
0.16.0.dev
Additional comments
A user coming to Cirq might reasonably try to run python dev_tools/modules.py
, not knowing ahead of time what arguments are valid. IMHO, it would be more user-friendly if modules.py
would at least print a help message if invoked without arguments.
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