Defect Detector Task Crash

[TheGrayGryphon]

Sorry, don't have anything else to go off of.

C:\Run8Studios\Run8 Train Simulator V3\R8TE>call R8TEenv\scripts\activate.bat
2025-11-30 16:05:27.543771 Run8Tracker#8574 starting r8te v24Nov25
2025-11-30 14:53:16 --> r8te (24Nov25) INITIALIZING NEW WORLD STATE <-- Total number of trains: 303 (AI trains: 60, Mid-cut locos: 2, player trains: 0)
Unhandled exception in internal background task 'scan_detectors'.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Run8Studios\Run8 Train Simulator V3\R8TE\R8TEenv\Lib\site-packages\discord\ext\tasks_init_.py", line 169, in _loop
await self.coro(*args, **kwargs)
File "C:\Run8Studios\Run8 Train Simulator V3\R8TE\botHandler.py", line 1474, in scan_detectors
tree = ET.parse(file)
File "C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.13_3.13.2544.0_x64__qbz5n2kfra8p0\Lib\xml\etree\ElementTree.py", line 1210, in parse
tree.parse(source, parser)
~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.13_3.13.2544.0_x64__qbz5n2kfra8p0\Lib\xml\etree\ElementTree.py", line 573, in parse
self._root = parser._parse_whole(source)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^
xml.etree.ElementTree.ParseError: not well-formed (invalid token): line 1, column 0
2025-11-30 15:07:08 --> r8te (24Nov25) INITIALIZING NEW WORLD STATE <-- Total number of trains: 268 (AI trains: 52,Mid-cut locos: 2, player trains: 0)

[sjstein]

This looks like a malformed DD file.
I will write some protection for that with a try/catch.