Unable to set span.set_status() directly from a span context

[ashok-an]

Describe your environment
Python 3.9 on mac; opentelemetry 1.0.0; jaeger tracer

Steps to reproduce
Trying to set status code of a span to StatusCode.ERROR
span.set_status(tracer.status.StatusCode.ERROR) fails due Status object not having status_code set

What is the expected behavior?
The default value should have worked for Status.status_code

What is the actual behavior?

    if status.status_code is not StatusCode.UNSET:
AttributeError: 'StatusCode' object has no attribute 'status_code'

Additional context
Workaround:

err = trace.status.Status(trace.status.StatusCode.ERROR)
span.set_status(err)

[srikanthccv]

Span set_status definition expects instance of Status. The work around you highlighted is the expected way to do it.

[lzchen]

@ashok-an
Has your issue been addressed?

[ashok-an]

@ashok-an
Has your issue been addressed?

Yes; closing the issue

[jspurestore]

I think leaving this as it is an invitation to have people fall into this pit, like I just di. Either the interface should be extended to see if the caller passed a valid code or improve the documentation to make it clear what is expected and how someone can work around it. I am happy to do the documentation update if someone can tell me how I can propose a documentation change.