Check for errors when executing initialization code (#1373)

We run some code before notebook execution to silence some warnings and
set up mock backends. At the moment, errors are ignored and the kernel
continues, often leading to unexpected behaviour.

This PR explicitly checks for errors when running the initialization
code and exits early if needed.

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Co-authored-by: Eric Arellano <14852634+Eric-Arellano@users.noreply.github.com>

scripts/nb-tester/qiskit_docs_notebook_tester/__init__.py

@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ from typing import Iterator
 import nbclient
 import nbformat
 import tomli
-from jupyter_client.manager import start_new_async_kernel
+from jupyter_client.manager import start_new_async_kernel, AsyncKernelClient
 from qiskit_ibm_runtime import QiskitRuntimeService
 from squeaky import clean_notebook
 
@@ -226,6 +226,12 @@ async def execute_notebook(path: Path, config: Config) -> bool:
     print(f"✅ No problems in {path} (written)")
     return True
 
+async def _execute_in_kernel(kernel: AsyncKernelClient, code: str) -> None:
+    """Execute code in kernel and raise if it fails"""
+    response = await kernel.execute_interactive(code, store_history=False)
+    if response.get("content", {}).get("status", "") == "error":
+        raise Exception("Error running initialization code")
+
 async def _execute_notebook(filepath: Path, config: Config) -> nbformat.NotebookNode:
     """
     Use nbclient to execute notebook. The steps are:
@@ -242,9 +248,9 @@ async def _execute_notebook(filepath: Path, config: Config) -> nbformat.Notebook
         extra_arguments=["--InlineBackend.figure_format='svg'"],
     )
 
-    kernel.execute(PRE_EXECUTE_CODE, store_history=False)
+    await _execute_in_kernel(kernel, PRE_EXECUTE_CODE)
     if config.should_patch(filepath):
-        kernel.execute(MOCKING_CODE, store_history=False)
+        await _execute_in_kernel(kernel, MOCKING_CODE)
 
     notebook_client = nbclient.NotebookClient(
         nb=nb,