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How to capture error message from exception in call to integrate?

asked 2021-05-27 05:39:37 +0100

Nasser gravatar image

updated 2021-05-27 05:48:43 +0100

Sometimes when I call integrate using different algorithms, I get TypeError exception. (or any other, but this one seems to be the most common)

I'd like to capture into a variable, the message that the other CAS could have generated also, this way I would know if the exception was due to sagemath interface to the other CAS, or if it is due to the other CAS generating internal error on its own.

An example will make it easy to explain. In the following, I can capture the exception name itself. But not the rest of the message that normally show on the terminal.

var('x')
try:
    integrate(log(1+x)/x/(1+(1+x)^(1/2))^(1/2),x, algorithm="fricas")
except Exception as ee:
    print("Exception is ",ee)
    the_exception = ee

The above prints on the screen the following

Exception is  An error occurred when FriCAS evaluated 'integrate(sage2,sage1)':

   >> Error detected within library code:
   integrate: implementation incomplete (constant residues)

I can capture into a variable, the name of the exception

sage: name_of_exception = the_exception.__class__.__name__

      'TypeError'

But how to capture into a variable the rest of error message that shows on the screen? In particular the message

   >> Error detected within library code:
   integrate: implementation incomplete (constant residues)

This will help me later know if the error was due to interface error, or due to internal error in the other CAS being used to do the integration. I looked at Python documentation for Exception, but so far did not see anything. There might be a sagemath specific way to do this?

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Does the_exception.args[0] do what you want? (I don't have Fricas installed, so I can't test this.)

John Palmieri gravatar imageJohn Palmieri ( 2021-05-27 07:30:20 +0100 )edit

@john. Great, yes, this did it. If you like to make this as answer, will be happy to accept it.

Nasser gravatar imageNasser ( 2021-05-27 07:40:23 +0100 )edit

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answered 2021-05-27 17:06:21 +0100

Try the_exception.args[0].

In case anyone is interested, I found this by using your code and then first evaluating the_exception. It printed some relevant information, which was a good sign, so I typed the_exception.[TAB], and args was one of the few options that appeared. the_exception.args is a tuple containing the information you want in the zeroth entry.

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str(the_exception) also works.

mwageringel gravatar imagemwageringel ( 2021-05-27 19:55:48 +0100 )edit

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