Catching Stderr

[RINGULARITTY]

Hi,
Assistant asked the user to install a lib :
pip install distutils

However, user has returned :
exitcode: 1 (execution failed)
Code output:

Which means that he didn't return the stderr, while stderr is :
ERROR: Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement distutils (from versions: none)

Which would help the assistant to fix its mistake.

It sounds there is no config variable where I can specify to also add stderr to dialogs.
It sounds to be a must have because it would avoid a lot of result failure.

[ekzhu]

Could you provide a minimal reproduction using the v0.4 API?

[RINGULARITTY]

Sure, I've just followed a really simple example :

[
    {
        "model": "yi-coder-9b-chat",
        "base_url": "http://192.168.1.54:1234/v1",
        "api_key": "lm-studio"
    }
]

import autogen
from autogen import AssistantAgent, UserProxyAgent

def main():
    config_list = autogen.config_list_from_json(
        env_or_file="OAI_CONFIG_LIST.json"
    )

    assistant = AssistantAgent(
        name="Assistant",
        llm_config={
            "config_list": config_list
        },
    )

    user_proxy = UserProxyAgent(
        name="user",
        human_input_mode="TERMINATE",
        code_execution_config={
            "work_dir": "coding",
            "use_docker": False
        }
    )

    user_proxy.initiate_chat(assistant, message="Plot a chart of META and TESLA stock price change")

if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()

[ekzhu]

Can you check your installed package version? It looks like the local command line executor already includes stderr in the output:

autogen/autogen/coding/local_commandline_code_executor.py

Lines 309 to 328 in 2d52bbc

	try:
	result = subprocess.run(
	cmd,
	cwd=self._work_dir,
	capture_output=True,
	text=True,
	timeout=float(self._timeout),
	env=env,
	encoding="utf-8",
	)
	except subprocess.TimeoutExpired:
	logs_all += "\n" + TIMEOUT_MSG
	# Same exit code as the timeout command on linux.
	exitcode = 124
	break
	logs_all += result.stderr
	logs_all += result.stdout
	exitcode = result.returncode

[ekzhu]

For v0.2, you want to use the local command line executor:

from autogen.coding import LocalCommandLineCodeExecutor

user_proxy = UserProxyAgent(
      name="user",
      human_input_mode="TERMINATE",
      code_execution_config={
          "executor": LocalCommandLineCodeExecutor(work_dir="coding"),
      }
  )