From 0396f5a7bb69664fb47a241879e971e26054d802 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mark Waddle <markwaddle@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2024 09:29:45 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] Avoids case where app name can be empty (#255)

---
 .../semantic_workbench_assistant/start.py                     | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/libraries/python/semantic-workbench-assistant/semantic_workbench_assistant/start.py b/libraries/python/semantic-workbench-assistant/semantic_workbench_assistant/start.py
index ce07e94..cfbb4c5 100644
--- a/libraries/python/semantic-workbench-assistant/semantic_workbench_assistant/start.py
+++ b/libraries/python/semantic-workbench-assistant/semantic_workbench_assistant/start.py
@@ -22,8 +22,8 @@ def main():
     parse_args.add_argument(
         "--app",
         type=str,
-        help="assistant app to start; ex: workbench_assistant.canonical:app",
-        default=os.getenv("ASSISTANT_APP", "assistant:app"),
+        help="assistant app to start in format <module>:<attribute> (also supports ASSISTANT_APP env var)",
+        default=os.getenv("ASSISTANT_APP") or "assistant:app",
     )
     parse_args.add_argument(
         "--port",