Lack of ewatercycle configuration (CFG) causes unclear error

[BSchilperoort]

If a user has no configuration saved, or something went wrong with saving it, the user is greeted with the error below when they try to call model.setup.

Perhaps a check to see if a configuration is present/not empty could help users debug.

Full error trace

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TypeError                                 Traceback (most recent call last)
Cell In [8], line 1
----> 1 cfg_file, cfg_dir = model.setup(
      2     maximum_soil_moisture_storage=12.0,
      3     end_time="1989-02-01T00:00:00Z",
      4 )
      5 print(cfg_file)
      6 print(cfg_dir)

File ~/mambaforge/envs/ewatercycle/lib/python3.10/site-packages/ewatercycle/models/marrmot.py:143, in MarrmotM01.setup(self, maximum_soil_moisture_storage, initial_soil_moisture_storage, start_time, end_time, solver, cfg_dir, delay)
    140 if cfg_dir:
    141     cfg_dir_as_path = to_absolute_path(cfg_dir)
--> 143 cfg_dir_as_path = _generate_cfg_dir(cfg_dir_as_path)
    144 config_file = self._create_marrmot_config(cfg_dir_as_path, start_time, end_time)
    146 if CFG["container_engine"].lower() == "singularity":

File ~/mambaforge/envs/ewatercycle/lib/python3.10/site-packages/ewatercycle/models/marrmot.py:50, in _generate_cfg_dir(cfg_dir)
     46     # TODO this timestamp isnot safe for parallel processing
     47     timestamp = datetime.datetime.now(datetime.timezone.utc).strftime(
     48         "%Y%m%d_%H%M%S"
     49     )
---> 50     cfg_dir = to_absolute_path(f"marrmot_{timestamp}", parent=Path(scratch_dir))
     51 cfg_dir.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
     52 return cfg_dir

File ~/mambaforge/envs/ewatercycle/lib/python3.10/pathlib.py:960, in Path.__new__(cls, *args, **kwargs)
    958 if cls is Path:
    959     cls = WindowsPath if os.name == 'nt' else PosixPath
--> 960 self = cls._from_parts(args)
    961 if not self._flavour.is_supported:
    962     raise NotImplementedError("cannot instantiate %r on your system"
    963                               % (cls.__name__,))

File ~/mambaforge/envs/ewatercycle/lib/python3.10/pathlib.py:594, in PurePath._from_parts(cls, args)
    589 @classmethod
    590 def _from_parts(cls, args):
    591     # We need to call _parse_args on the instance, so as to get the
    592     # right flavour.
    593     self = object.__new__(cls)
--> 594     drv, root, parts = self._parse_args(args)
    595     self._drv = drv
    596     self._root = root

File ~/mambaforge/envs/ewatercycle/lib/python3.10/pathlib.py:578, in PurePath._parse_args(cls, args)
    576     parts += a._parts
    577 else:
--> 578     a = os.fspath(a)
    579     if isinstance(a, str):
    580         # Force-cast str subclasses to str (issue #21127)
    581         parts.append(str(a))

TypeError: expected str, bytes or os.PathLike object, not NoneType