Troubleshooting PubNub Python SDK

Python version support

Python SDK versions 5.0.0 and higher no longer support Python v2.7 and the Twisted and Tornado frameworks. If you require support for any of these, use SDK version 4.8.1.

Note that PubNub will stop supporting versions of Python lower than 3.7 by the end of 2021.

How to enable logging

Use this code to enable logging: 

import pubnub
import logging

pubnub.set_stream_logger('pubnub', logging.DEBUG)

How to find the version of your SDK

You can access your SDK version via constant: 

from pubnub import PubNub

PubNub.SDK_VERSION

Error handling with sync()

In case of sync() calls errors will be wrapped out by either Envelope or PubNubAsyncioException which both implement two object fields:

  • e.result - a request result object in case of success, otherwise None

  • e.status - PNStatus object with useful information about the finished request. You may check if it was an error or a success using e.is_error() helper.

sync() usage 

try:
    e = pubnub.publish().channel("my_channel").message("hello!").sync()
    print(str(e.result))
except PubNubException as e:
    print("Error %s" % str(e))
    if status is not None:
        print("Error category #%d" % e.status.category)

Error handling with async()

async() call lets you check for errors using status.is_error() helper:

def callback(result, status):
    if status.is_error():
        print("Error %s" % str(status.error_data.exception))
        print("Error category #%d" % status.category)
    else:
        print(str(result))
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