Nbconvert: ExecutePreprocessor: stop at error but save notebook (and stack trace)

[matthias-k]

Hi,

I am trying to use nbconvert to run notebooks from the commandline. I would like to stop if cell execution fails anywhere (as it is the default), but in this case I see only the raw exception at the command line. Since the notebook is not saved in this case, I have no access to the full stack trace of the exception.

is it possible to either

• display the full stack trace in the console or
• save the notebook after the first error? #120 suggests to me that that should be the default. But for me the notebook is never saved unless I specify allow_errors, in which case all cells are executed

Thankyou for your help!

[takluyver]

Yep, we should include the traceback in the error message as well.

[markusbaden]

Hi there,

I'm running into a similar problem. When executing notebook in a Jenkins pipeline, it would be great @matthias-k second suggestion would be possible.

Then I could execute the notebook via Jenkins and in case of a failure for example attach the HTML output showing the notebook execution up to the error as an attachment to an email.

Based on my tests it seems that with allow_error nbconvert does return no error code and without allow_error it does return an error code, but does not save the HTML output.

Many thanks for your help (and of course nbconvert!)

[sebbov]

👍 for Kaggle. What's the status for this. Will the --save-on-error support be merged in?

[timgriffiths]

@berleon have you tried to get your fix merged we would be very interested in this feature as well