svg2paths: don't crash on a <path> with no d attribute

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If an SVG has a <path> with no d attribute, svg2paths raises a bare KeyError: 'd' and the whole file fails to load. A path with no d is valid SVG (it just draws nothing) and editors sometimes emit them, so one such element shouldn't abort the parse.

path2pathd already reads the attribute with .get('d', ''), and there's already a test (test_svg2paths_polygon_no_points) expecting a geometry-less shape to come back as an empty Path. This makes svg2paths do the same for <path>: no d becomes an empty Path instead of a crash, and the attribute list stays aligned with the path list. Added a test.

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• Bug Fixes
  • SVG files containing a <path> element without path data can now be parsed without an error. The element is returned as an empty path.

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svg2paths() now treats a missing path d attribute as an empty string. A test verifies that parsing a path without d returns one empty Path.

Changes

SVG path parsing

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Handle a missing d attribute svgpathtools/svg_to_paths.py, test/test_svg2paths.py	svg2paths() defaults a missing d attribute to an empty string. The test checks that <svg><path/></svg> produces one empty Path.

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Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~8 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Low

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Parsing a path without d is covered, and no merge-blocking behavior issue is established. An additional assertion would protect the stated path-and-attribute alignment guarantee.

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test/test_svg2paths.py (1)

184-191: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Assert the returned attribute entry.

svgstr2paths() returns the path attribute dictionaries as its second result. This test discards that result, so it can pass even if the path without d has no corresponding attribute entry.

Suggested fix

-        paths, _ = svgstr2paths('<svg><path/></svg>')
+        paths, attributes = svgstr2paths('<svg><path/></svg>')
         self.assertTrue(len(paths)==1)
         self.assertTrue(len(paths[0])==0)
         self.assertTrue(paths[0]==Path())
+        self.assertEqual(len(attributes), len(paths))
+        self.assertEqual(attributes[0], {})

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Review comment at @test/test_svg2paths.py around lines 184 - 191:
Update test_svg2paths_path_without_d to retain the attribute dictionaries
returned by svgstr2paths and assert there is one entry corresponding to the path
and that it is empty.

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Review comments at @test/test_svg2paths.py:
- Around line 184-191: Update test_svg2paths_path_without_d to retain the
attribute dictionaries returned by svgstr2paths and assert there is one entry
corresponding to the path and that it is empty.

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