On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 8:59 AM, Dieter Maurer <die...@handshake.de> wrote: > "ivdn...@gmail.com" <ivdn...@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.
That's a good theory. Or perhaps something in the code itself is handling the module's globals() and very occasionally does something that is incorrect and destructive. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
