From 8cd2f0ef71b6956799ead7e92f62040bbdbe7e68 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Paul Gauthier <aider@paulg.org>
Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2024 09:06:17 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] defend against spawn TypeError: sequence item 2: expected str
 instance, list found

---
 aider/commands.py | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/aider/commands.py b/aider/commands.py
index 551de4373d3..c2b4ea8a655 100644
--- a/aider/commands.py
+++ b/aider/commands.py
@@ -766,7 +766,12 @@ def cmd_test(self, args):
         if not args and self.coder.test_cmd:
             args = self.coder.test_cmd
 
+        if not args:
+            return
+
         if not callable(args):
+            if type(args) is not str:
+                raise ValueError(repr(args))
             return self.cmd_run(args, True)
 
         errors = args()