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Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2012 14:29:19 +0200
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On 2012-07-24 14:17, ivdneut@gmail.com wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I have a deamon process that runs for some considerable time (weeks) without any problems. At some point it starts throwing the following exception:
>
>    File "/some/path/scheduler.py", line 376, in applyrule
>      result = execrule(rule_code)
>    File "/some/path/scheduler.py", line 521, in execrule
>      rulepath = os.path.dirname(__file__)+"/"+'/'.join(rule['modules'])+"/"+rule['rulename']
> NameError: name '__file__' is not defined
It is not a direct solution to your problem, but can you save the value 
of os.path.dirname(__file__) into another variable?