I documented an XML-API with Jupyter Notebook, so documentation and specification cannot drift apart.
This works great.
As the API also has to handle invalid input, Jupyter Notebook shows - correctly - the traceback.
The traceback is very verbose - I'd like to abbreviate / shorten it - ideally, only the last line should be shown.
request
server.get_licenses("not-existing-id")
current print out in Jupyter Notebook
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Fault Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-5-366cceb6869e> in <module>
----> 1 server.get_licenses("not-existing-id")
/usr/lib/python3.9/xmlrpc/client.py in __call__(self, *args)
1114 return _Method(self.__send, "%s.%s" % (self.__name, name))
1115 def __call__(self, *args):
-> 1116 return self.__send(self.__name, args)
1117
1118 ##
/usr/lib/python3.9/xmlrpc/client.py in __request(self, methodname, params)
1456 allow_none=self.__allow_none).encode(self.__encoding, 'xmlcharrefreplace')
1457
-> 1458 response = self.__transport.request(
1459 self.__host,
1460 self.__handler,
/usr/lib/python3.9/xmlrpc/client.py in request(self, host, handler, request_body, verbose)
1158 for i in (0, 1):
1159 try:
-> 1160 return self.single_request(host, handler, request_body, verbose)
1161 except http.client.RemoteDisconnected:
1162 if i:
/usr/lib/python3.9/xmlrpc/client.py in single_request(self, host, handler, request_body, verbose)
1174 if resp.status == 200:
1175 self.verbose = verbose
-> 1176 return self.parse_response(resp)
1177
1178 except Fault:
/usr/lib/python3.9/xmlrpc/client.py in parse_response(self, response)
1346 p.close()
1347
-> 1348 return u.close()
1349
1350 ##
/usr/lib/python3.9/xmlrpc/client.py in close(self)
660 raise ResponseError()
661 if self._type == "fault":
--> 662 raise Fault(**self._stack[0])
663 return tuple(self._stack)
664
Fault: <Fault 1: 'company id is not valid'>
my wish output
Fault: <Fault 1: 'company id is not valid'>
As it turns out, that's built into iPython, so you don't need to install or update anything.
Just put a single cell at the top of your notebook and run %xmode Minimal as the only input. You can also see the documentation with %xmode? or a lot of other "magic method" documentation with %quickref.