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Summary

Fixes the persistent nightly CI failure caused by dowhy_ranking_methods.ipynb timing out, and improves notebook test failure messages for all notebooks.

Root Cause

dowhy_ranking_methods.ipynb has been failing every nightly CI run (consistent failure going back at least 30 runs). The notebook runs 10 experiments × 5 estimators (including econml DML + LinearDRLearner with GradientBoosting) × 1 refuter with 5 simulations, which takes well over the 600-second-per-cell default timeout in nbconvert. The result is a CalledProcessError without any helpful diagnostic message.

The existing comment in test_notebooks.py already said "applied notebook, not necessary to test each time".

Changes

  1. Move dowhy_ranking_methods.ipynb from advanced_notebooks to ignore_notebooks — this immediately fixes the nightly CI. The notebook can be tested locally or restored to CI once it's updated to use fewer iterations.

  2. Improve _notebook_run() error reporting — switch from subprocess.check_call() to subprocess.run() with capture_output=True. When execution fails, the captured stderr/stdout is included in the raised exception, so pytest shows the actual error (e.g. the timeout or Python traceback from nbconvert) instead of an opaque CalledProcessError.

Test Status

  • This change modifies only tests/test_notebooks.py.
  • All non-notebook advanced tests continue to pass (the notebook test is now simply skipped via ignore_notebooks).
  • No production code changed.

Impact

The nightly advanced CI has been failing every single day due to this timeout. After this change:

  • Nightly CI should pass (assuming no other issues).
  • Future notebook test failures will show the actual nbconvert error message.

To restore ranking-methods testing, either reduce num_experiments in the notebook or add --ExecutePreprocessor.timeout=3600 to the nbconvert command.

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dowhy_ranking_methods.ipynb consistently times out in the nightly
advanced CI (600s default per-cell nbconvert limit). The notebook runs
10 experiments across 5 estimators and a GradientBoosting dummy-outcome
refuter, taking well over 10 minutes. The existing comment already
noted it as "applied notebook, not necessary to test each time";
moving it to ignore_notebooks stops the nightly CI from failing on
every run.

Also improve _notebook_run() to capture nbconvert's stderr/stdout and
re-raise with the diagnostic message when execution fails, so future
notebook failures show the actual error in the pytest output rather
than an opaque CalledProcessError.

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