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Re: Daemon loses __file__ reference after a while.

From Dieter Maurer <dieter@handshake.de>
Subject Re: Daemon loses __file__ reference after a while.
Date 2012-07-24 16:59 +0200
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"ivdneut@gmail.com" <ivdneut@gmail.com> writes:

> I have a daemon process that runs for a considerable amount of time (weeks on end) without any problems. At some point I start getting the exception:
>
> Exception info: Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "scheduler.py", line 376, in applyrule
>     result = execrule(rule_code)
>   File "scheduler.py", line 521, in execrule
>     rulepath = os.path.dirname(__file__)+"/"+'/'.join(rule['modules'])+"/"+rule['rulename']
> NameError: name '__file__' is not defined
>
> This section of the code is executed in this process *all the time*, but suddenly stops working. I have been searching for similar issues online, but only come accross people having problems because they run the script interactively. This is not the case here.

This is strange indeed.

I have only one vague idea: should something try to terminate the
process, modules would start to lose their variables during shutdown.

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Daemon loses __file__ reference after a while. "ivdneut@gmail.com" <ivdneut@gmail.com> - 2012-07-24 04:48 -0700
  Re: Daemon loses __file__ reference after a while. Ervin Hegedüs <airween@gmail.com> - 2012-07-24 14:24 +0200
    Re: Daemon loses __file__ reference after a while. "ivdneut@gmail.com" <ivdneut@gmail.com> - 2012-07-24 05:41 -0700
    Re: Daemon loses __file__ reference after a while. "ivdneut@gmail.com" <ivdneut@gmail.com> - 2012-07-24 05:41 -0700
  Re: Daemon loses __file__ reference after a while. Laszlo Nagy <gandalf@shopzeus.com> - 2012-07-24 14:31 +0200
  Re: Daemon loses __file__ reference after a while. Dieter Maurer <dieter@handshake.de> - 2012-07-24 16:59 +0200
    Re: Daemon loses __file__ reference after a while. Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2012-07-24 12:32 -0700
      Re: Daemon loses __file__ reference after a while. Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2012-07-24 14:08 -0600
  Re: Daemon loses __file__ reference after a while. Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2012-07-24 14:02 -0600

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