I have nested python exceptions. I wan't to extract all of them into a list from a traceback while discarding everything else, i.e. files, code lines, etc.
The code below extracts everything from a traceback as a list of strings
import traceback
import requests
try:
r = requests.get('https://thisdoesntexist.test')
except Exception as e:
exc = traceback.format_exception(e)
print(exc)
Output:
[
'Traceback (most recent call last):\n',
' File "c:\\Python312\\Lib\\site-packages\\urllib3\\connection.py", line 203, in _new_conn\n sock = connection.create_connection(\n ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^\n',
' File "c:\\Python312\\Lib\\site-packages\\urllib3\\util\\connection.py", line 60, in create_connection\n for res in socket.getaddrinfo(host, port, family, socket.SOCK_STREAM):\n ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^\n',
' File "c:\\Python312\\Lib\\socket.py", line 963, in getaddrinfo\n for res in _socket.getaddrinfo(host, port, family, type, proto, flags):\n ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^\n',
'socket.gaierror: [Errno 11001] getaddrinfo failed\n',
'\nThe above exception was the direct cause of the following exception:\n\n',
'Traceback (most recent call last):\n',
# Output truncated
'requests.exceptions.ConnectionError: HTTPSConnectionPool(host=\'thisdoesntexist.test\', port=443): Max retries exceeded with url: / (Caused by NameResolutionError("<urllib3.connection.HTTPSConnection object at 0x0000025E6C236600>: Failed to resolve \'thisdoesntexist.test\' ([Errno 11001] getaddrinfo failed)"))\n'
]
But i only need this:
[
'socket.gaierror: [Errno 11001] getaddrinfo failed',
'urllib3.exceptions.NameResolutionError: <urllib3.connection.HTTPSConnection object at 0x0000025E6C236600>: Failed to resolve 'thisdoesntexist.test' ([Errno 11001] getaddrinfo failed)',
'urllib3.exceptions.MaxRetryError: HTTPSConnectionPool(host=\'thisdoesntexist.test\', port=443): Max retries exceeded with url: / (Caused by NameResolutionError("<urllib3.connection.HTTPSConnection object at 0x0000025E6C236600>: Failed to resolve \'thisdoesntexist.test\' ([Errno 11001] getaddrinfo failed)"))',
'requests.exceptions.ConnectionError: HTTPSConnectionPool(host=\'thisdoesntexist.test\', port=443): Max retries exceeded with url: / (Caused by NameResolutionError("<urllib3.connection.HTTPSConnection object at 0x0000025E6C236600>: Failed to resolve \'thisdoesntexist.test\' ([Errno 11001] getaddrinfo failed)"))\n'
]
Is there a better way of achieving this without iterating over strings and pattern matching?
NB: It would be perfect if I could get a type of the exception in addition to the exception message string, e.g:
[
{"type": "socket.gaierror", "message": 'socket.gaierror: [Errno 11001] getaddrinfo failed'},
{"type": "urllib3.exceptions.NameResolutionError", "message": 'urllib3.exceptions.NameResolutionError: <urllib3.connection.HTTPSConnection object at 0x0000025E6C236600>: Failed to resolve \'thisdoesntexist.test\' ([Errno 11001] getaddrinfo failed)'},
# etc
]
You can try:
import traceback
import requests
def get_info(exc):
r = []
if exc.__context__:
r += get_info(exc.__context__)
tbe = traceback.TracebackException.from_exception(exc)
t = tbe.exc_type.__module__ + "." + tbe.exc_type.__qualname__
r.append({"type": t, "message": str(exc)})
return r
try:
r = requests.get("https://thisdoesntexist.test")
except Exception as e:
print(get_info(e))
Prints:
[
{"type": "socket.gaierror", "message": "[Errno -2] Name or service not known"},
{
"type": "urllib3.exceptions.NameResolutionError",
"message": "<urllib3.connection.HTTPSConnection object at 0x7f6cc693d9d0>: Failed to resolve 'thisdoesntexist.test' ([Errno -2] Name or service not known)",
},
{
"type": "urllib3.exceptions.MaxRetryError",
"message": "HTTPSConnectionPool(host='thisdoesntexist.test', port=443): Max retries exceeded with url: / (Caused by NameResolutionError(\"<urllib3.connection.HTTPSConnection object at 0x7f6cc693d9d0>: Failed to resolve 'thisdoesntexist.test' ([Errno -2] Name or service not known)\"))",
},
{
"type": "requests.exceptions.ConnectionError",
"message": "HTTPSConnectionPool(host='thisdoesntexist.test', port=443): Max retries exceeded with url: / (Caused by NameResolutionError(\"<urllib3.connection.HTTPSConnection object at 0x7f6cc693d9d0>: Failed to resolve 'thisdoesntexist.test' ([Errno -2] Name or service not known)\"))",
},
]