How do I disable and then re-enable a warning? - python

I'm writing some unit tests for a Python library and would like certain warnings to be raised as exceptions, which I can easily do with the simplefilter function. However, for one test I'd like to disable the warning, run the test, then re-enable the warning.
I'm using Python 2.6, so I'm supposed to be able to do that with the catch_warnings context manager, but it doesn't seem to work for me. Even failing that, I should also be able to call resetwarnings and then re-set my filter.
Here's a simple example which illustrates the problem:
>>> import warnings
>>> warnings.simplefilter("error", UserWarning)
>>>
>>> def f():
... warnings.warn("Boo!", UserWarning)
...
>>>
>>> f() # raises UserWarning as an exception
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
File "<stdin>", line 2, in f
UserWarning: Boo!
>>>
>>> f() # still raises the exception
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
File "<stdin>", line 2, in f
UserWarning: Boo!
>>>
>>> with warnings.catch_warnings():
... warnings.simplefilter("ignore")
... f() # no warning is raised or printed
...
>>>
>>> f() # this should raise the warning as an exception, but doesn't
>>>
>>> warnings.resetwarnings()
>>> warnings.simplefilter("error", UserWarning)
>>>
>>> f() # even after resetting, I'm still getting nothing
>>>
Can someone explain how I can accomplish this?
EDIT: Apparently this is a known bug: http://bugs.python.org/issue4180

Reading through the docs and few times and poking around the source and shell I think I've figured it out. The docs could probably improve to make clearer what the behavior is.
The warnings module keeps a registry at __warningsregistry__ to keep track of which warnings have been shown. If a warning (message) is not listed in the registry before the 'error' filter is set, any calls to warn() will not result in the message being added to the registry. Also, the warning registry does not appear to be created until the first call to warn:
>>> import warnings
>>> __warningregistry__
------------------------------------------------------------
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<ipython console>", line 1, in <module>
NameError: name '__warningregistry__' is not defined
>>> warnings.simplefilter('error')
>>> __warningregistry__
------------------------------------------------------------
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<ipython console>", line 1, in <module>
NameError: name '__warningregistry__' is not defined
>>> warnings.warn('asdf')
------------------------------------------------------------
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<ipython console>", line 1, in <module>
UserWarning: asdf
>>> __warningregistry__
{}
Now if we ignore warnings, they will get added to the warnings registry:
>>> warnings.simplefilter("ignore")
>>> warnings.warn('asdf')
>>> __warningregistry__
{('asdf', <type 'exceptions.UserWarning'>, 1): True}
>>> warnings.simplefilter("error")
>>> warnings.warn('asdf')
>>> warnings.warn('qwerty')
------------------------------------------------------------
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<ipython console>", line 1, in <module>
UserWarning: qwerty
So the error filter will only apply to warnings that aren't already in the warnings registry. To make your code work you'll need to clear the appropriate entries out of the warnings registry when you're done with the context manager (or in general any time after you've used the ignore filter and want a prev. used message to be picked up the error filter). Seems a bit unintuitive...

Brian Luft is correct about __warningregistry__ being the cause of the problem. But I wanted to clarify one thing: the way the warnings module appears to work is that it sets module.__warningregistry__ for each module where warn() is called. Complicating things even more, the stacklevel option to warnings causes the attribute to be set for the module the warning was issued "in the name of", not necessarily the one where warn() was called... and that's dependent on the call stack at the time the warning was issued.
This means you may have a lot of different modules where the __warningregistry__ attribute is present, and depending on your application, they may all need clearing before you'll see the warnings again. I've been relying on the following snippet of code to accomplish this... it clears the warnings registry for all modules whose name matches the regexp (which defaults to everything):
def reset_warning_registry(pattern=".*"):
"clear warning registry for all match modules"
import re
import sys
key = "__warningregistry__"
for mod in sys.modules.values():
if hasattr(mod, key) and re.match(pattern, mod.__name__):
getattr(mod, key).clear()
Update: CPython issue 21724 addresses issue that resetwarnings() doesn't clear warning state. I attached an expanded "context manager" version to this issue, it can be downloaded from reset_warning_registry.py.

Brian is spot on about the __warningregistry__. So you need to extend catch_warnings to save/restore the global __warningregistry__ too
Something like this may work
class catch_warnings_plus(warnings.catch_warnings):
def __enter__(self):
super(catch_warnings_plus,self).__enter__()
self._warningregistry=dict(globals.get('__warningregistry__',{}))
def __exit__(self, *exc_info):
super(catch_warnings_plus,self).__exit__(*exc_info)
__warningregistry__.clear()
__warningregistry__.update(self._warningregistry)

Following on from Eli Collins' helpful clarification, here is a modified version of the catch_warnings context manager that clears the warnings registry in a given sequence of modules when entering the context manager, and restores the registry on exit:
from warnings import catch_warnings
class catch_warn_reset(catch_warnings):
""" Version of ``catch_warnings`` class that resets warning registry
"""
def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
self.modules = kwargs.pop('modules', [])
self._warnreg_copies = {}
super(catch_warn_reset, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)
def __enter__(self):
for mod in self.modules:
if hasattr(mod, '__warningregistry__'):
mod_reg = mod.__warningregistry__
self._warnreg_copies[mod] = mod_reg.copy()
mod_reg.clear()
return super(catch_warn_reset, self).__enter__()
def __exit__(self, *exc_info):
super(catch_warn_reset, self).__exit__(*exc_info)
for mod in self.modules:
if hasattr(mod, '__warningregistry__'):
mod.__warningregistry__.clear()
if mod in self._warnreg_copies:
mod.__warningregistry__.update(self._warnreg_copies[mod])
Use with something like:
import my_module_raising_warnings
with catch_warn_reset(modules=[my_module_raising_warnings]):
# Whatever you'd normally do inside ``catch_warnings``

I've run into the same issues, and while all of the other answers are valid I choose a different route. I don't want to test the warnings module, nor know about it's inner workings. So I just mocked it instead:
import warnings
import unittest
from unittest.mock import patch
from unittest.mock import call
class WarningTest(unittest.TestCase):
#patch('warnings.warn')
def test_warnings(self, fake_warn):
warn_once()
warn_twice()
fake_warn.assert_has_calls(
[call("You've been warned."),
call("This is your second warning.")])
def warn_once():
warnings.warn("You've been warned.")
def warn_twice():
warnings.warn("This is your second warning.")
if __name__ == '__main__':
__main__=unittest.main()
This code is Python 3, for 2.6 you need the use an external mocking library as unittest.mock was only added in 2.7.

Related

doctest ignore the front of line after an ellipsis

The docs don't seem to be very clear on how to address the following ...
def test():
"""
>>> import doctest
>>> doctest.ELLIPSIS_MARKER = '<ignore>'
>>> import pandas as pd
>>> raise pd.errors.InvalidIndexError # doctest: +ELLIPSIS, +NORMALIZE_WHITESPACE
Traceback (most recent call last):
<ignore>
<ignore>InvalidIndexError
"""
import doctest
doctest.run_docstring_examples(test, globals())
This will work fine but is not addressing the wildcard at the front of <ignore>InvalidIndexError
def test():
"""
>>> import doctest
>>> doctest.ELLIPSIS_MARKER = '<ignore>'
>>> import pandas as pd
>>> raise pd.errors.InvalidIndexError # doctest: +ELLIPSIS, +NORMALIZE_WHITESPACE
Traceback (most recent call last):
<ignore>
pandas.errors.InvalidIndexError
"""
import doctest
doctest.run_docstring_examples(test, globals())
Note pandas version is 1.1.3
References
https://docs.python.org/3/library/doctest.html#option-flags
How enable ellipsis when calling Python doctest?
Can I have an ellipsis at the beginning of the line in a Python doctest?
doctest requires exceptions to look a certain way. From the docs:
Each line of the traceback stack (if present) must be indented further than the first line of the example, or start with a non-alphanumeric character. The first line following the traceback header indented the same and starting with an alphanumeric is taken to be the start of the exception detail.
(added bold)
This means if you make the ELLIPSIS_MARKER start with an alphanumeric, it'll work properly. Here's an example using re.error:
def test():
"""
>>> import doctest
>>> doctest.ELLIPSIS_MARKER = 'MODULE.'
>>> import re
>>> raise re.error(None) # doctest: +ELLIPSIS
Traceback (most recent call last):
...
MODULE.error: None
"""
By the way:
Note that tracebacks are treated very specially. In particular, in the rewritten example, the use of ... is independent of doctest's ELLIPSIS option. The ellipsis in that example could be left out, or could just as well be three (or three hundred) commas or digits, or an indented transcript of a Monty Python skit.
For context, here's an example with no exception that uses two ellipses:
def test():
r"""
>>> print('foo\nbar\nbaz') # doctest: +ELLIPSIS
foo
...
...
"""
That said, IGNORE_EXCEPTION_DETAIL may be a better solution. (I just learned about it myself.)
When specified, an example that expects an exception passes if an exception of the expected type is raised, even if the exception detail does not match. For example, an example expecting ValueError: 42 will pass if the actual exception raised is ValueError: 3*14, but will fail, e.g., if TypeError is raised.
It will also ignore the module name used in Python 3 doctest reports.
(added bold)
For example:
def test():
"""
>>> import re
>>> raise re.error(None) # doctest: +IGNORE_EXCEPTION_DETAIL
Traceback (most recent call last):
...
error: foobar
"""
Note that both the exception module and exception details are ignored in this example. That's on purpose, to show a side-effect of this solution.

Not allowing the developer to use the print method

I have developed a python framework that is being used by others. In order to print any data to the output, the developer should use a Log class (Log.print(...)) and should not use the print() method directly. Is there any ways to force this rule throughout the code? For example, by throwing an error when a developer uses the print method directly like this:
Error: print method cannot be called directly. Please use Log.print().
Suppressing print (as discussed here) is not a good idea as the developer might get confused.
Actullay, below two line code are the same:
sys.stdout.write('hello'+'\n')
print('hello')
so, you can redirect sys.stdout to a class which raise a exception at calling print.
import sys
class BlockPrint():
call_print_exception = Exception('Error: print method cannot be called directly. Please use Log.print().')
def write(self, str):
raise self.call_print_exception
bp = BlockPrint()
sys.stdout=bp
print('aaa')
Output:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "p.py", line 12, in <module>
print('aaa')
File "p.py", line 7, in write
raise self.call_print_exception
Exception: Error: print method cannot be called directly. Please use Log.print().

Log stack trace for python warning

A package that I'm using in my python program is throwing a warning that I'd like to understand the exact cause of. I've set logging.captureWarning(True) and am capturing the warning in my logging, but still have no idea where it is coming from. How do I also log the stack trace so I can see where in my code the warning is coming from? Do I use traceback?
I've ended up going with the below:
import warnings
import traceback
_formatwarning = warnings.formatwarning
def formatwarning_tb(*args, **kwargs):
s = _formatwarning(*args, **kwargs)
tb = traceback.format_stack()
s += ''.join(tb[:-1])
return s
warnings.formatwarning = formatwarning_tb
logging.captureWarnings(True)
It's a little hackish, but you can monkeypatch the warnings.warn method to this:
import traceback
import warnings
def g():
warnings.warn("foo", Warning)
def f():
g()
warnings.warn("bar", Warning)
_old_warn = warnings.warn
def warn(*args, **kwargs):
tb = traceback.extract_stack()
_old_warn(*args, **kwargs)
print("".join(traceback.format_list(tb)[:-1]))
warnings.warn = warn
f()
print("DONE")
This is the output:
/tmp/test.py:14: Warning: foo
_old_warn(*args, **kwargs)
File "/tmp/test.py", line 17, in <module>
f()
File "/tmp/test.py", line 8, in f
g()
File "/tmp/test.py", line 5, in g
warnings.warn("foo", Warning)
/tmp/test.py:14: Warning: bar
_old_warn(*args, **kwargs)
File "/tmp/test.py", line 17, in <module>
f()
File "/tmp/test.py", line 9, in f
warnings.warn("bar", Warning)
DONE
See that calling the original warnings.warn function does not report the line you'd want, bu the stack trace is indeed correct (you could print the warning message yourself).
If you do not know what data/instruction is causing the warning throw, you can use tools like the standard Python Debugger.
The documentation is really good and detailed, but some quickly examples that may help should be:
Without modifying source code: invoking the debbugger as script:
$ python -m pdb myscript.py
Modifying source code: you can make use of calls to pdb.set_trace(), that work like breakpoints; For example, consider I have the following example code:
x = 2
x = x * 10 * 100
y = x + 3 + y
return y
And I would like to know what value does x and y have before the return, or what does the stack contains, I would add the following line between those statements:
pdb.set_trace()
And I will be promted to the (Pdb) prompt, that will allow you to go through the code line by line. Useful commands for the (Pdb) prompt are:
n: executes the next statement.
q: quits the whole program.
c: quits the (Pdb) prompt and stops debugging.
p varname: prints the value of varname
As you do not provide more information, I do not know if that should be enough, but I think that at least, it may be a good start.
BONUS EDIT
Based on this answer, I have found there is a nice and friendly GUI debugging tool, that you can simply install by:
$ pip install pudb
And run the debugger with your script with:
$ python -m pudb.run myscript.py
EDIT: Adding the postmortem debugging
If we do not even know if the code is going to crash or not, we can enter in postmortem debugging if there has been a crash. From the Pbd documentation:
The typical usage to inspect a crashed program is:
>>> import pdb
>>> import mymodule
>>> mymodule.test()
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
File "./mymodule.py", line 4, in test
test2()
File "./mymodule.py", line 3, in test2
print spam
NameError: spam
>>> pdb.pm()
> ./mymodule.py(3)test2()
-> print spam
(Pdb)
As postmortem looks at sys.last_traceback, to enter only if there is a traceback (and so on, a warning or crash):
if sys.last_traceback:
pdb.pm()
You can turn warnings into exceptions, which means you will get a stack trace automatically:
warnings.filterwarnings("error")
See https://docs.python.org/3.4/library/warnings.html#the-warnings-filter
If it was me, I'd go with #Lluís Vilanova's quick & dirty hack, just to find something. But if that's not an option...
If you really want a "logging" solution, you could try something like this (fully working source).
Basic steps are:
Create a custom logging.Formatter subclass that includes the current stack where the logging record is formatted
Use that formatter on the class of the warning
The meat of the code is the custom formatter:
class Formatter(logging.Formatter):
def format(self, record):
record.stack_info = ''.join(traceback.format_stack())
return super().format(record)
Per the docs:
New in version 3.2: The stack_info parameter was added.
For python 3.2 and above, using the optional stack_info keyword argument is the easiest way to get stack trace info along with the log message.
In the example below, "Server.py" is using "lib2.py", which is in turn using "lib.py".
On enabling the stack_info argument the complete trace back is logged along with every logging.log() call. This works the same with logging.info() and other convenience methods as well.
Usage :-
logging.log(DEBUG, "RWL [{}] : acquire_read()".format(self._ownerName), stack_info=True)
Output :-
2018-10-06 10:59:55,726|DEBUG|MainThread|lib.py|acquire_read|RWL [Cache] : acquire_read()
Stack (most recent call last):
File "./Server.py", line 41, in <module>
logging.info("Found {} requests for simulation".format(simdata.count()))
File "<Path>\lib2.py", line 199, in count
with basics.ReadRWLock(self.cacheLock):
File "<Path>\lib.py", line 89, in __enter__
self.rwLock.acquire_read()
File "<Path>\lib.py", line 34, in acquire_read
logging.log(DEBUG, "RWL [{}] : acquire_read()".format(self._ownerName), stack_info=True)

How to use python-magic 5.19-1

I need to determine MIME-types from files without suffix in python3 and I thought of python-magic as a fitting solution therefor.
Unfortunately it does not work as described here:
https://github.com/ahupp/python-magic/blob/master/README.md
What happens is this:
>>> import magic
>>> magic.from_file("testdata/test.pdf")
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'from_file'
So I had a look at the object, which provides me with the class Magic for which I found documentation here:
http://filemagic.readthedocs.org/en/latest/guide.html
I was surprised, that this did not work either:
>>> with magic.Magic() as m:
... pass
...
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
TypeError: __init__() missing 1 required positional argument: 'ms'
>>> m = magic.Magic()
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
TypeError: __init__() missing 1 required positional argument: 'ms'
>>>
I could not find any information about how to use the class Magic anywhere, so I went on doing trial and error, until I figured out, that it accepts instances of LP_magic_set only for ms.
Some of them are returned by the module's methods
magic.magic_set() and magic_t().
So I tried to instanciate Magic with either of them.
When I then call the file() method from the instance, it will always return an empty result and the errlvl() method tells me error no. 22.
So how do I use magic anyway?
I think that you are confusing different implementations of "python-magic"
You appear to have installed python-magic-5.19.1, however, you reference firstly the documentation for python-magic-0.4.6, and secondly filemagic-1.6. I think that you are better off using python-magic-0.4.6 as it is readily available at PYPI and easily installed via pip into virtualenv environments.
Documentation for python-magic-5.19.1 is hard to come by, but I managed to get it to work like this:
>>> import magic
>>> m=magic.open(magic.MAGIC_NONE)
>>> m.load()
0
>>> m.file('/etc/passwd')
'ASCII text'
>>> m.file('/usr/share/cups/data/default.pdf')
'PDF document, version 1.5'
You can also get different magic descriptions, e.g. MIME type:
>>> m=magic.open(magic.MAGIC_MIME)
>>> m.load()
0
>>> m.file('/etc/passwd')
'text/plain; charset=us-ascii'
>>> m.file('/usr/share/cups/data/default.pdf')
'application/pdf; charset=binary'
or for more recent versions of python-magic-5.30
>>> import magic
>>> magic.detect_from_filename('/etc/passwd')
FileMagic(mime_type='text/plain', encoding='us-ascii', name='ASCII text')
>>> magic.detect_from_filename('/etc/passwd').mime_type
'text/plain'

Coloring exceptions from Python on a terminal

Is there an easy way to get the message of the exception to be colored on the command line? For example
def g(): f()
def f(): 1/0
g()
Gives the error
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "test.py", line 3, in <module>
g()
File "test.py", line 1, in g
def g(): f()
File "test.py", line 2, in f
def f(): 1/0
ZeroDivisionError: integer division or modulo by zero
I would like "integer division or modulo by zero" to be colored or highlighted on the terminal so that I can quickly pick it out of a long traceback (Linux only). Ideally, I wouldn't want to write a custom class for each Exception, but somehow catch and format all kinds.
EDIT: The question linked in the comments gives examples on how to solve the problem with external software, but I'm interested in an internal Python solution.
You can assign a custom function to the sys.excepthook handler. The function is called whenever there is a unhandled exception (so one that exits the interpreter).
def set_highlighted_excepthook():
import sys, traceback
from pygments import highlight
from pygments.lexers import get_lexer_by_name
from pygments.formatters import TerminalFormatter
lexer = get_lexer_by_name("pytb" if sys.version_info.major < 3 else "py3tb")
formatter = TerminalFormatter()
def myexcepthook(type, value, tb):
tbtext = ''.join(traceback.format_exception(type, value, tb))
sys.stderr.write(highlight(tbtext, lexer, formatter))
sys.excepthook = myexcepthook
set_highlighted_excepthook()
This version uses the pygments library to convert the traceback text into one formatted with ANSI coloring, before writing it to stderr.
Someone turned this into a project that detects terminal support and lets you set the pygments style, see colored-traceback.py.
Found another way to do this using the IPython module which is likely a dependency that everyone already has installed:
from IPython.core.ultratb import ColorTB
c = ColorTB()
exc = sys.exc_info()
print(''.join(c.structured_traceback(*exc)))
This takes the solution #freakish shared and makes the colorization part of the exception instead of requiring the user to add color to each exception message. Obviously, it only works for custom exceptions, so it may not be exactly what OP was looking for.
from colorama import Fore, init
init()
class Error (Exception):
def __init__ (self, message):
super().__init__(Fore.RED + message)
class BadConfigFile (Error):
pass
raise BadConfigFile("some error message")
This will print the traceback with "some error message" in red. Having 'Error' as a base class means you can create other exceptions that will all inherit the colorization of the message.
Have a look at colorama ( or any other coloring ) module. Then you can wrap you're entire app with:
import traceback
from colorama import Fore, init
init( )
try:
// your app
except Exception:
print Fore.RED + traceback.format_exc( ) + Fore.RESET
// possibly raise again or log to db

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