I wrote my data to a file using pprint.PrettyPrinter
and I am trying to read it using ast.literal_eval
.
This has been working for me for quite some time, and I am reasonably satisfied with the text representation produced.
However, today I got this error on deserialization:
File "/...mypath.../store.py", line 82, in <lambda>
reader=(lambda fd: ast.literal_eval(fd.read())),
File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/ast.py", line 80, in literal_eval
return _convert(node_or_string)
File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/ast.py", line 60, in _convert
return list(map(_convert, node.elts))
File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/ast.py", line 63, in _convert
in zip(node.keys, node.values))
File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/ast.py", line 62, in <genexpr>
return dict((_convert(k), _convert(v)) for k, v
File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/ast.py", line 63, in _convert
in zip(node.keys, node.values))
File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/ast.py", line 62, in <genexpr>
return dict((_convert(k), _convert(v)) for k, v
File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/ast.py", line 79, in _convert
raise ValueError('malformed string')
ValueError: malformed string
The file in question is 17k lines/700kb. I loaded it into Emacs -- the parens are balanced. There are no non-ASCII characters in the file. I can "divide and conquer" (split the file in half and try to real each half) - but this is rather tedious. Is there anything better?
I modified ast.literal_eval:_convert
to print the offending node - it turned out to be <_ast.UnaryOp object at 0x110696510>
. Not very helpful.
I hope JSON
is not the answer. ;-)
I am not using JSON
because
--- /...../2.7/lib/python2.7/ast.py.old 2018-03-25 12:17:11.000000000 -0400
+++ /...../2.7/lib/python2.7/ast.py 2018-03-25 12:17:18.000000000 -0400
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ def literal_eval(node_or_string):
return left + right
else:
return left - right
- raise ValueError('malformed string')
+ raise ValueError('malformed string', node.lineno, node.col_offset)
return _convert(node_or_string)
ast
:>>> reload(ast)
Get
ValueError: ('malformed string', 21161, 10)
then line 21161, column 10 is where the error is.
Bug report submitted.
Wrap the code in try/except
, catch the error and use inspect
/traceback
to access the node
in question:
try:
ast.literal_eval(...)
except ValueError as ex:
_exc_type, exc_value, exc_traceback = sys.exc_info()
print("ERROR: %r" % (exc_value))
# traceback.print_tb(exc_traceback)
last_tb = exc_traceback
while last_tb.tb_next:
last_tb = last_tb.tb_next
print("Error location: line=%d, col=%d" % (
last_tb.tb_frame.f_locals["node"].lineno,
last_tb.tb_frame.f_locals["node"].col_offset))
prints
ERROR: ValueError('malformed string')
Error location: line=21933, col=15
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