On Wed, 9 Dec 2020 at 01:59, James Cook <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Wed, 9 Dec 2020 at 01:55, James Cook <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> I've noticed that sometimes when plugin code triggers a runtime error, I
>> don't get a stack trace. Here's a made-up minimal-ish example:
>>
>> from beancount.core import amount, data, number
>> __plugins__ = ("foo",)
>> def foo(entries, _options):
>>     return [data.Transaction(
>>         flag = "*",
>>         payee = None,
>>         narration = "",
>>         tags = "",
>>         links = set(),
>>         postings = [data.Posting("Equity:Foo",
>> amount.Amount(number.D("10"), "CAD") + "X", None, None, None, None)]
>>     )], ()
>>
>> If I run bean-check on a file that imports that plugin, I just get this
>> output:
>>
>> falsifian angel beancount $ PYTHONPATH=./plugins bean-check
>> main.beancount
>> <load>:0:       Error importing "foo": can only concatenate tuple (not
>> "str") to tuple
>>
>> On the other hand, if I replace the body of foo() with 'raise
>> BaseException("error")', I get a nice stack trace:
>>
>> falsifian angel beancount $ PYTHONPATH=./plugins bean-check
>> main.beancount
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>   File "/home/falsifian/.local/bin/bean-check", line 11, in <module>
>>     load_entry_point('beancount==2.3.3', 'console_scripts',
>> 'bean-check')()
>>   File
>> "/home/falsifian/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/beancount/scripts/check.py",
>> line 49, in main
>>     entries, errors, _ = loader.load_file(
>>   File
>> "/home/falsifian/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/beancount/loader.py",
>> line 89, in load_file
>>     entries, errors, options_map = _load_file(
>>   File
>> "/home/falsifian/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/beancount/loader.py",
>> line 214, in wrapped
>>     result = function(toplevel_filename, *args, **kw)
>>   File
>> "/home/falsifian/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/beancount/loader.py",
>> line 255, in _uncached_loa
>> d_file
>>     return _load([(filename, True)], *args, **kw)
>>   File
>> "/home/falsifian/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/beancount/loader.py",
>> line 510, in _load
>>     entries, errors = run_transformations(entries, parse_errors,
>> options_map,
>>   File
>> "/home/falsifian/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/beancount/loader.py",
>> line 588, in run_transform
>> ations
>>     entries, plugin_errors = callback(entries, options_map)
>>   File
>> "/home/falsifian/w/colin_and_james/accounting/beancount/plugins/foo.py",
>> line 4, in foo
>>     raise BaseException("error")
>> BaseException: error
>>
>> Why does that happen? Is there a way I can get a stack trace more
>> consistently? It would help me debug.
>>
>> James
>>
>
> I mostly answered my own question. If I really want a traceback, I can
> just catch the exception before foo() returns. Hacky example that uses
> traceback.format_exc() to show the stack trace:
>
> from beancount.core import amount, data, number
> import traceback
> __plugins__ = ("foo",)
> def foo(entries, _options):
>     try:
>         return [data.Transaction(
>             flag = "*",
>             payee = None,
>             narration = "",
>             tags = "",
>             links = set(),
>             postings = [data.Posting("Equity:Foo",
> amount.Amount(number.D("10"), "CAD") + "X", None, None, None, None)]
>         )], ()
>     except BaseException:
>         traceback.format_exc()
>
Er, apparently I don't know what the above line does. I think the reason
this worked for me is just that I changed the type of the exception to
something beancount doesn't catch.


>         raise BaseException("error")
>
> James
>

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