Larry Martell <larry.mart...@gmail.com> writes: > We have been trying to figure out an intermittent problem where a > thread would fail with this: > > AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute '_strptime' > > Even though we were importing datetime. After much banging our heads > against the wall, we found this: > > http://code-trick.com/python-bug-attribute-error-_strptime/ > > The workaround suggested there, to call strptime before starting your > threads, seems to have fixed the issue. > > I thought I'd mention it here in case anyone else is facing this.
I can reproduce it in Python 2 (but not in Python 3) even with *threading* module: #!/usr/bin/env python import threading import time for _ in range(10): threading.Thread(target=time.strptime, args=("2013-06-02", "%Y-%m-%d")).start() Don't use *thread* directly (it is even renamed to *_thread* in Python 3, to discourage an unintended usage), use *threading* module instead. In Python 3.3+, PyImport_ImportModuleNoBlock() is deprecated https://bugs.python.org/issue9260 -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list