Is there a way to log error responses from Github Actions?

Question

I am trying to create a bug tracker that allows me to record the error messages of the python script I run. Here is my YAML file at the moment:

name: Bug Tracker

 #Controls when the workflow will run
on:
  # Triggers the workflow on push request events
  push:
    branches: [ main ]
    
  # Allows you to run this workflow manually from the Actions tab (for testing)
  workflow_dispatch:

# A workflow run is made up of one or more jobs that can run sequentially or in parallel
jobs:
  build:
    # Self Hosted Runner
    runs-on: windows-latest

    # Steps for tracker to get activated
    steps:
      # Checks-out your repository under BugTracker so the job can find it
      - uses: actions/checkout@v2
      - name: setup python
        uses: actions/setup-python@v2
        with:
          python-version: 3.8
      # Runs main script to look for 
      - name: Run File and collect bug
        id: response
        run:  |
          echo Running File...
          python script.py
          echo "${{steps.response.outputs.result}}"

Every time I run the workflow I can't save the error code. By save the error code, I mean for example... if the python script produces "Process completed with exit code 1." then I can save that to a txt file. I've seen cases where I could save if it runs successfully. I've thought about getting the error in the python script but I don't want to have to add the same code to every file if I don't have to. Any thoughts? Greatly appreciate any help or suggestions.

Update: I have been able to successfully use code in python to save to the txt file. However, I'm still looking to do this in Github if anyone has any suggestions.

user_2614364 · Answer

You could :

redirect the output to a log file while capturing the exit code
set an output with the exit code value like:

echo ::set-output name=status::$status

in another step, commit the log file
in a final step, check that the exit code is success (0) otherwise exit the script with this exit code

Using ubuntu-latest, it would be like this:

name: Bug Tracker

on: [push,workflow_dispatch]

jobs:
  build:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest

    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v2
      - name: setup python
        uses: actions/setup-python@v2
        with:
          python-version: 3.8
      - name: Run File and collect logs
        id: run
        run:  |
          echo Running File...
          status=$(python script.py > log.txt 2>&1; echo $?)
          cat log.txt
          echo ::set-output name=status::$status
      - name: Commit log
        run: |
          git config --global user.name 'GitHub Action'
          git config --global user.email 'action@github.com'
          git add -A
          git checkout master
          git diff-index --quiet HEAD || git commit -am "deploy workflow logs"
          git push
      - name: Check run status
        if: steps.run.outputs.status != '0'
        run: exit "${{ steps.run.outputs.status }}"

On windows, I think you would need to update this part:

status=$(python script.py > log.txt 2>&1; echo $?)
cat log.txt

Is there a way to log error responses from Github Actions?

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