[New-bugs-announce] [issue31450] Subprocess exceptions re-raised in parent process do not have child_traceback attribute

[Michal Sekletar]

New submission from Michal Sekletar:

Issue
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Documentation of subprocess module claims that exceptions raised in child process will be re-raised in the parent process and will have child_traceback attribute set [1]. At least on Fedora Rawhide with python-3.6.2 this is not the case.


Reproducer
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$ cat preexec-exception.py
#!/usr/bin/env python3

import subprocess

class PreExecCallback:
    def __call__(self):
        raise Exception()

if __name__ == "__main__":
    p = PreExecCallback()

    try:
        subprocess.Popen(['/bin/echo', 'foobar'], preexec_fn=p)
    except subprocess.SubprocessError as e:
        if not hasattr(e, 'child_traceback'):
            print('BUG: Exception happened in child, but exception object does not have child_traceback attribute')

Actual result
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$ ./preexec-exception.py 
BUG: Exception happened in child, but exception object does not have child_traceback attribute

Expected result
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No output, because child_traceback attribute is present

Additional info
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I happened to notice this while working with pre-exec callbacks. However, according to https://stackoverflow.com/questions/38433837/subprocess-child-traceback this seems to be the generic problem.

[1] https://docs.python.org/3/library/subprocess.html#exceptions

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components: Library (Lib)
messages: 302064
nosy: msekletar
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Subprocess exceptions re-raised in parent process do not have child_traceback attribute
type: behavior
versions: Python 3.6

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