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* PR #71 (feature-70-fix):
  [REGRESSION] fix for typo in setup.py 🙉
  [PATCH] Applied changes as disscussed in review (- WIP #71 -)
  [PATCH] Improves on fix by using function to practice the D.R.Y. principle (- WIP #71 -)
  [STYLE] Improved input checking durring bootstrap (- WIP #70 -)

* PR #68 (feature-bandit):
  Update .github/workflows/bandit.yml to test auto-fixes
  Update .github/workflows/bandit.yml to point at own fork
  Update bandit.yml
  Create bandit.yml

* PR #69 (feature-67-fix):
  [FIX] Stability fix for error handling (- WIP #67 -)

Changes in file .github/workflows/bandit.yml:
 - New workflow to bandit scan the repo.

Changes in file multicast/__main__.py:
 def doStep(self, *args):
  - fix for error handling by simplifying use of `Exception.args`

Changes in file setup.py:
 def readFile(filename):
  - stability and security improvements to bootstrapping.

.github/workflows/bandit.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,51 @@
+# This workflow uses actions that are not certified by GitHub.
+# They are provided by a third-party and are governed by
+# separate terms of service, privacy policy, and support
+# documentation.
+
+# Bandit is a security linter designed to find common security issues in Python code.
+# This action will run Bandit on your codebase.
+# The results of the scan will be found under the Security tab of your repository.
+
+# https://github.com/marketplace/actions/bandit-scan is ISC licensed, by abirismyname
+# https://pypi.org/project/bandit/ is Apache v2.0 licensed, by PyCQA
+
+name: Bandit
+on:
+  push:
+    branches: [ "master", "stable", feature-*, HOTFIX-* ]
+  pull_request:
+    # The branches below must be a subset of the branches above
+    branches: [ "master" ]
+
+permissions: {}
+
+jobs:
+  bandit:
+    permissions:
+      contents: read # for actions/checkout to fetch code
+      security-events: write # for github/codeql-action/upload-sarif to upload SARIF results
+
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      - name: Bandit Scan
+        uses: reactive-firewall/python-bandit-scan@v2.1
+        with: # optional arguments
+          # exit with 0, even with results found
+          exit_zero: true # optional, default is DEFAULT
+          # Github token of the repository (automatically created by Github)
+          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }} # Needed to get PR information.
+          # File or directory to run bandit on
+          path: "." # optional, default is .
+          # Report only issues of a given severity level or higher. Can be LOW, MEDIUM or HIGH. Default is UNDEFINED (everything)
+          level: high # optional, default is UNDEFINED
+          # Report only issues of a given confidence level or higher. Can be LOW, MEDIUM or HIGH. Default is UNDEFINED (everything)
+          confidence: high # optional, default is UNDEFINED
+          # comma-separated list of paths (glob patterns supported) to exclude from scan (note that these are in addition to the excluded paths provided in the config file) (default: .svn,CVS,.bzr,.hg,.git,__pycache__,.tox,.eggs,*.egg)
+          # excluded_paths: # optional, default is DEFAULT
+          # comma-separated list of test IDs to skip
+          # skips: # optional, default is DEFAULT
+          # path to a .bandit file that supplies command line arguments
+          # ini_path: # optional, default is DEFAULT
+

multicast/__main__.py

@@ -476,7 +476,7 @@ def doStep(self, *args):
 				if (sys.stdout.isatty()):  # pragma: no cover
 					print(w)
 					print(str(inerr))
-					print(str(inerr.args()))
+					print(str(inerr.args))
 				del inerr
 				__EXIT_MSG = (2, "NoOp")
 		except BaseException:  # pragma: no branch