From 77a829dde2d326b7222fa1b6529bd3400d419760 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Derek Feichtinger <derek.feichtinger@psi.ch>
Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2026 16:50:12 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] fix cases when expression cannot be evaluated due to type
 error

---
 slurm-eff-tool.py | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/slurm-eff-tool.py b/slurm-eff-tool.py
index 14a070d..ba0db7d 100755
--- a/slurm-eff-tool.py
+++ b/slurm-eff-tool.py
@@ -274,7 +274,12 @@ class SafeExpression:
     def evaluate(self, variables: Mapping[str, int | float]) -> int | float | bool:
         # normalize to downcased variable names
         variables = {k.lower(): v for k,v in variables.items()}
-        return self._eval(self.tree.body, variables)
+        try:
+            return self._eval(self.tree.body, variables)
+        except TypeError:
+            return False
+        except:
+            raise
 
     def _eval(self, node: ast.AST, variables: Mapping[str, int | float]):
         if isinstance(node, ast.Constant):