sys.stderr and thread

[Michele Petrazzo]

Peter Hansen wrote:
> Michele Petrazzo wrote:
>> This is the exception:
>>
>> Unhandled exception in thread started by <bound method
>> Thread.__bootstrap of <Thread(Thread-1, stopped daemon)>>
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>   File "C:\Python23\lib\threading.py", line 451, in __bootstrap
>>     self.__stop()
>>   File "C:\Python23\lib\threading.py", line 460, in __stop
>>     self.__block.notifyAll()
>>   File "C:\Python23\lib\threading.py", line 256, in notifyAll
>>     self.notify(len(self.__waiters))
>>   File "C:\Python23\lib\threading.py", line 238, in notify
>>     currentThread() # for side-effect
>> TypeError: 'NoneType' object is not callable
> 
> 
> One of the steps the interpreter takes is to go through all modules and 
> rebind all globals to None.  I suspect currentThread is a global in the 
> above (although I thought that particular issue was fixed in Python 
> 2.4... are you running an older version?).

Like you can see (c:\python23), I'm working with python 2.3. I'll try 
with 2.4.

> 
> The "simplest" thing to do is to ignore this exception because it's 
> spurious".  One way to ignore it is simply to wrap that particular 
> daemon thread's "run" method with a "try/except: pass" so that all 
> exceptions are swallowed quietly.  Often that's not preferable, however, 
> since it will of course swallow real exceptions too.

After a lot of tries, I modify the twisted threadselectreactor with your 
hack, and now it work.

> -Peter

Thanks a lot,
Michele