Handle requests module unavailability in anisotropy_plot_AMS notebook

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ipmag.download_magic_from_id() throws AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'get' when the requests module is unavailable. This occurs because PmagPy conditionally imports requests and sets it to None on failure, but download_magic_from_id() doesn't validate availability before use.

Changes

• Error handling: Wrapped download_magic_from_id() call in try-except with fallback to pre-downloaded data in example_data/anisotropy_slump/
• Consistent fallback behavior: Both exception and success=False cases now properly unpack fallback data
• Documentation: Added note explaining requests requirement and automatic fallback mechanism
• Code quality: Moved imports to cell top, improved exception specificity, fixed "formated" → "formatted" typo

# Before
result, magic_file = ipmag.download_magic_from_id('19571', directory=dir_path)
ipmag.unpack_magic(magic_file, dir_path, print_progress=False)
contribution = cb.Contribution(dir_path)

# After
try:
    result, magic_file = ipmag.download_magic_from_id('19571', directory=dir_path)
    if result:
        ipmag.unpack_magic(magic_file, dir_path, print_progress=False)
    else:
        # Fallback to pre-downloaded data
        if os.path.exists(magic_file_path):
            ipmag.unpack_magic(magic_file_path, dir_path, print_progress=False)
except Exception as e:
    print(f"Unable to download from MagIC (error: {type(e).__name__})")
    # Use pre-downloaded data
    if os.path.exists(magic_file_path):
        ipmag.unpack_magic(magic_file_path, dir_path, print_progress=False)

contribution = cb.Contribution(dir_path)

Notebook now runs successfully regardless of requests availability or network connectivity.

Warning

Firewall rules blocked me from connecting to one or more addresses (expand for details)

I tried to connect to the following addresses, but was blocked by firewall rules:

• api.earthref.org
  • Triggering command: /usr/bin/python3 python3 -c from pmagpy import ipmag import os dir_path = '/tmp/test_magic' os.makedirs(dir_path, exist_ok=True) try: result, magic_file = ipmag.download_magic_from_id('19571', directory=dir_path) print('SUCCESS:', result, magic_file) except Exception as e: (dns block)
  • Triggering command: /usr/bin/python3 python3 (dns block)
• earthref.org
  • Triggering command: /usr/bin/python3 python3 (dns block)
• www2.earthref.org
  • Triggering command: /usr/bin/python3 python3 (dns block)

If you need me to access, download, or install something from one of these locations, you can either:

• Configure Actions setup steps to set up my environment, which run before the firewall is enabled
• Add the appropriate URLs or hosts to the custom allowlist in this repository's Copilot coding agent settings (admins only)

Original prompt

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This section details on the original issue you should resolve

<issue_title>example data not being pulled into ams processing notebook</issue_title>
<issue_description>In the anisotropy_plot_AMS notebook, the lines:

dir_path = 'example_data/anisotropy_slump'
result, magic_file = ipmag.download_magic_from_id('19571', directory=dir_path)
ipmag.unpack_magic(magic_file, dir_path, print_progress=False)
contribution = cb.Contribution(dir_path)

give an error message of this:

AttributeError                            Traceback (most recent call last)
~\AppData\Local\Temp\ipykernel_13288\2637364914.py in ?()
      1 dir_path = 'example_data/anisotropy_slump'
----> 2 result, magic_file = ipmag.download_magic_from_id('19571', directory=dir_path)
      3 ipmag.unpack_magic(magic_file, dir_path, print_progress=False)
      4 contribution = cb.Contribution(dir_path)

~\AppData\Local\Packages\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.10_qbz5n2kfra8p0\LocalCache\local-packages\Python310\site-packages\pmagpy\ipmag.py in ?(magic_id, directory, share_key)
   5329     api = f'https://api.earthref.org/v1/MagIC/data'
   5330     params = {'id': magic_id, 'key': share_key} if share_key else {'id': magic_id}
   5331 
   5332     # Perform the request
-> 5333     response = requests.get(api, params=params)
   5334 
   5335     if response.status_code == 200 and response.text:
   5336         # Write the content to the file only if the request was successful and the content is not empty

AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'get'
```</issue_description>

<agent_instructions>This issue is associated with ipmag.download_magic_from_id(). See if you can figure out what the issue is likely due to and we can then move into https://github.com/PmagPy/PmagPy to try and solve. A wget issue?</agent_instructions>

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• Fixes example data not being pulled into ams processing notebook #62

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