From a1c143d6747d2136dd7eb21478e13fc95e1c8efc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Gregory Ashton <gregory.ashton@ligo.org>
Date: Mon, 6 May 2019 17:52:18 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Improve the warning message when reading a prior-file fails
---
bilby/core/prior.py | 7 ++++++-
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/bilby/core/prior.py b/bilby/core/prior.py
index 5e6894e74..aca8e710e 100644
--- a/bilby/core/prior.py
+++ b/bilby/core/prior.py
@@ -115,7 +115,12 @@ class PriorDict(OrderedDict):
elements = line.split('=')
key = elements[0].replace(' ', '')
val = '='.join(elements[1:])
- prior[key] = eval(val)
+ try:
+ prior[key] = eval(val)
+ except TypeError as e:
+ raise TypeError(
+ "Unable to parse dictionary file {}, bad line: {} = {}. Error message {}"
+ .format(filename, key, val, e))
self.update(prior)
def from_dictionary(self, dictionary):
--
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