Re: [HTCondor-users] interpolation using the python bindings

[Jose Caballero <jcaballero.hep@xxxxxxxxx>]

OK. I have just installed the latest devel version, 8.7.9, and it
works. So I guess it was a bug in 8.6.x that is now fixed in devel
version. Right?

Jose

2018-09-10 13:59 GMT-04:00 Jose Caballero <jcaballero.hep@xxxxxxxxx>:
> 2018-09-10 12:54 GMT-04:00 Todd L Miller <tlmiller@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
>>> It looks like this indicates that the Python bindings don't parse and
>>> expand submit variables it finds in the dictionary.
>>
>>
>> # So I ran the following Python:
>>
>> import sys
>>
>> import htcondor
>>
>> schedd = htcondor.Schedd()
>> submit = htcondor.Submit({
>>     'executable'            : '/bin/sleep',
>>     'arguments'             : '60',
>>     '+special1'             : '$(Cluster)',
>>     '+special2'             : '"$(Cluster)"',
>>     '+special3'             : ' $(Cluster) ',
>>     '+special4'             : ' "$(Cluster)" ',
>>     '+special5'             : ' " $(Cluster) " ',
>>     'transfer_executable'   : 'false',
>>     'should_transfer_files' : 'false',
>>     'log'                   : 'jc.log'
>> })
>>
>> try:
>>     with schedd.transaction() as txn:
>>         cluster_id = submit.queue(txn, 1)
>> except Exception as e:
>>     print("Job submission failed for an unknown error: " + str(e))
>>     sys.exit(-1)
>>
>> sys.exit(0)
>>
>> # and got the following results --
>> # 'PYTHONPATH=~/condor/install/lib/python python ./jc.py ; condor_q -l |
>> grep special'
>>
>> special1 = 853
>> special2 = "853"
>> special3 = 853
>> special4 = "853"
>> special5 = " 853 "
>>
>> From which you can observe that Condor does some strange things, but not
>> expanding macros is really just not one of them (at least for the version of
>> the bindings I tried with).  Jose, could you post a small, ideally minimal,
>> version of the code that's giving you trouble?
>>
>> - ToddM
>>
>
> Hi Todd,
>
> which version of HTCondor are you using?
> I just copied & pasted you snippet, tried myself, and got this error message:
>
>       Job submission failed for an unknown error: Failed to create a
> copy of attributes
>
> I am running 8.6.12.
> In order to eliminate that error, I tried with a simpler version:
>
>
>     schedd = htcondor.Schedd()
>     submit = htcondor.Submit({
>         'executable'            : '/bin/sleep',
>         'arguments'             : '60',
>         '+special2'             : '"$(Cluster)"',
>         'transfer_executable'   : 'false',
>         'should_transfer_files' : 'false',
>         'log'                   : 'tm.log'
>     })
>
> And then I get again the same result:
>
>
>         $ condor_q -l 169893 | grep special
>         special2 = "$(Cluster)"
>
>
> Thanks a lot.
> Jose