imported method from module evaluates to None in some cases

[Paul McGuire]

On Nov 23, 4:21 am, Hrvoje Niksic <hnik... at xemacs.org> wrote:
>
> I don't know why the interpreter would shut down abruptly, but I
> suppose you could inspect the traceback to see what exactly caused the
> exception?- Hide quoted text -
>
While you puzzle out the root cause, could something like this help
alleviate your race condition at interpreter shutdown?

-- Paul


def safe_call(fn, alt):
    if fn is not None:
        return fn
    return alt

def WakeupAlt():
    print "Wakeup has been set to None"

def Wakeup():
    print "This is your wakeup call..."

safe_call(Wakeup,WakeupAlt)()
Wakeup = None
safe_call(Wakeup,WakeupAlt)()

prints:
This is your wakeup call...
Wakeup has been set to None