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Errors & debugging medium

Collect Multiple Validation Errors in Python Before Raising

A chainable Validator class that accumulates all validation errors and raises them together in a single exception.

validation exceptions errors
Python
class ValidationError(Exception):
    pass

class Validator:
    def __init__(self):
        self.errors = []
    
    def validate_required(self, value, field_name):
        if not value:
            self.errors.append(f"{field_name} is required")
        return self
    
    def validate_email(self, email):
        …
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Errors & debugging medium

How to Log Errors with Structured Fields in Python

Logs error details as structured dictionary fields using Python's logging module with extra parameters.

logging errors structured
Python
import logging
import sys

def log_structured_error(operation: str, user_id: int, status_code: int, error_msg: str):
    """Log an error with structured fields using a dictionary."""
    logger = logging.getLogger("structured_logger")
    logger.setLevel(logging.ERROR)
    
    # Create console handler if not already …
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Errors & debugging medium

How to Print an Exception Chain in Python for Debugging

A helper that walks an exception's __cause__ and __context__ chain, printing each level with indentation to make debugging nested errors clearer.

exception-chain debugging traceback
Python
import sys
import traceback

def pretty_exception_chain(exc):
    """Print the full exception chain with cause/context details."""
    chain = []
    current = exc
    seen = set()
    
    while current is not None and id(current) not in seen:
        seen.add(id(current))
        chain.append(current)
        curren…
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AI & LLM integration patterns medium

How to Retry LLM Calls on Rate Limit Errors in Python

Implement a retry mechanism with exponential backoff for LLM API calls that raises a custom RateLimitError, using a mock function to demonstrate the pattern.

llm retry rate-limit
Python
import time
import random


def mock_llm_call():
    """Simulates an LLM API call that may raise a rate limit error."""
    if random.random() < 0.4:  # 40% chance of rate limit
        raise RateLimitError("Rate limit exceeded. Try again later.")
    return {"response": "Hello world from mock LLM"}


class RateLimitE…
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Automation & scripting medium

Find Broken Image References Across a Website in Python

Crawl internal pages of a website, collect all image source URLs, then check each with HEAD requests to report any that return HTTP 4xx or connection errors.

web scraping crawling broken links
Python
import requests
from urllib.parse import urljoin, urlparse
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
from concurrent.futures import ThreadPoolExecutor, as_completed

def find_all_links(base_url, max_pages=50):
    visited, to_visit = set(), {base_url}
    while to_visit and len(visited) < max_pages:
        url = to_visit.pop()
 …
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Reliability & rate limiting medium

How to Implement a Circuit Breaker in Python

A Python dataclass that provides circuit breaker logic with closed, open, and half-open states to fail fast on repeated errors.

circuit-breaker resilience fault-tolerance
Python
from dataclasses import dataclass
from datetime import datetime, timedelta
import time


@dataclass
class CircuitBreaker:
    failure_threshold: int = 3
    timeout_seconds: float = 5.0
    failures: int = 0
    state: str = "closed"
    last_failure: datetime = None

    def call(self, func):
        if self.state ==…
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Production deployment patterns medium

Auto Rollback on Error Rate Exceeded in Python

Simulate a service that monitors a rolling window of request errors and automatically rolls back when the error rate exceeds a threshold.

error-rate rollback rolling-window
Python
import random
import time


def simulate_requests(total_requests=1000, rollback_threshold=0.2):
    """
    Simulate a service that automatically rolls back when the error rate
    exceeds a threshold within a rolling window.
    """
    window_size = 100
    errors_seen = []
    rolled_back = False

    for req_num i…
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