From 468a7721c87f98fd670e6d349b1cd95254544143 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Marcel <marcel.paffrath@rub.de>
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2024 17:01:09 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] [bugfix] changed default behavior of PylotParameter class to
 use default Parameter if called without input parameters. Related to #40

---
 pylot/core/io/inputs.py  | 6 ++++++
 pylot/core/util/utils.py | 1 -
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/pylot/core/io/inputs.py b/pylot/core/io/inputs.py
index 71888642..be899e30 100644
--- a/pylot/core/io/inputs.py
+++ b/pylot/core/io/inputs.py
@@ -53,10 +53,16 @@ class PylotParameter(object):
         self.__parameter = {}
         self._verbosity = verbosity
         self._parFileCont = {}
+
         # io from parsed arguments alternatively
         for key, val in kwargs.items():
             self._parFileCont[key] = val
         self.from_file()
+
+        # if no filename or kwargs given, use default values
+        if not fnin and not kwargs:
+            self.reset_defaults()
+
         if fnout:
             self.export2File(fnout)
 
diff --git a/pylot/core/util/utils.py b/pylot/core/util/utils.py
index ca0d86fc..c0e20171 100644
--- a/pylot/core/util/utils.py
+++ b/pylot/core/util/utils.py
@@ -51,7 +51,6 @@ def readDefaultFilterInformation():
     :rtype: dict
     """
     pparam = PylotParameter()
-    pparam.reset_defaults()
     return readFilterInformation(pparam)