Formatting IPython remote errors

ipython-errors.py

def print_compositeerror(e):
    sys.stderr.write("Got %d exceptions from IPython engines:\n" %
                     len(e.elist))
    for e_type, e_msg, formatted_tb, infos in e.elist:
        sys.stderr.write("Error from engine %d (%r):\n" % (
                         infos['engine_id'], infos['engine_uuid']))
        sys.stderr.write("%s\n" % strip_ansi_codes(formatted_tb))


def print_remoteerror(e):
    sys.stderr.write("Got exception from IPython engine:\n")
    sys.stderr.write("%s: %s\n" % (e.ename, e.evalue))
    sys.stderr.write("Traceback:\n%s\n" % strip_ansi_codes(e.traceback))


_ansi_code = re.compile(r'%s(?:(?:\[[^A-Za-z]*[A-Za-z])|[^\[])' % '\x1B')

def strip_ansi_codes(s):
    return _ansi_code.sub('', s)