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On Tuesday, July 24, 2012 2:29:19 PM UTC+2, Laszlo Nagy wrote:
> On 2012-07-24 14:17, ivdneut@gmail.com wrote:
> &gt; Hello all,
> &gt;
> &gt; I have a deamon process that runs for some considerable time (weeks) without any problems. At some point it starts throwing the following exception:
> &gt;
> &gt;    File &quot;/some/path/scheduler.py&quot;, line 376, in applyrule
> &gt;      result = execrule(rule_code)
> &gt;    File &quot;/some/path/scheduler.py&quot;, line 521, in execrule
> &gt;      rulepath = os.path.dirname(__file__)+&quot;/&quot;+&#39;/&#39;.join(rule[&#39;modules&#39;])+&quot;/&quot;+rule[&#39;rulename&#39;]
> &gt; NameError: name &#39;__file__&#39; 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?


That might be a workaround that I'm seriously pondering as well.

Thank you.

Ian.

(sorry for google messing up my posts)