code: def mark_job_as_errored(job_id, error_object):
      
      update_dict = {
          "status": "error",
          "error": error_object,
          "finished_timestamp": datetime.datetime.now(),
      }
      _update_job(job_id, update_dict)
docs: Mark a job as failed with an error.
  
      :param job_id: the job_id of the job to be updated
      :type job_id: unicode
  
      :param error_object: the error returned by the job
      :type error_object: either a string or a dict with a "message" key whose
          value is a string