category loading fails, but selection can continue, but lacks some categories in the output

[foobacca]

This was observed using version 1.0.2

Had the message:

Error loading categories: inconsistent values in min_flex and max_flex in the categories input for No qualification/ none yet: the flex values must be equal or outside the max and min values.

And then it ignored a number of categories. It also, in step 3, suggested the range of people was (0-0). But it did let selection continue.

Rich deleted the min_flex and max_flex columns in the spreadsheet and then the selection worked as expected.

Looking at code:

• exception raised inside try/except in _load_cats()
• so it stops further processing,
• is caught on this line,
• but the previous categories were already saved here in previous rounds of the loop and nothing actually stops working. There is no "success=False" thing that would indicate to the outer code to stop. So it continues.

I have tested the code using the sortition-algorithms library - at this commit - and it shows the same error. But you cannot then run a selection, so you can't end up with a half done selection. So I recommend we just get the new version out there and we can then close this.

[nickpgill]

I am happy for you to release the next version!