Exception AttributeError: "'NoneType' object has no attribute

[prime]

BPO	15193
Nosy	@amauryfa, @mdickinson
Files	objectvar.py

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closed_at = <Date 2012-06-26.13:19:10.185>
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title = 'Exception AttributeError: "\'NoneType\' object has no attribute'
updated_at = <Date 2012-06-26.13:31:58.169>
user = 'https://bugs.python.org/prime'

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[prime]

Behavior of the program changes with number of charaters used in variable name. Attached file shows a simple example.

[mdickinson]

The exception you report looks incomplete: there should be something after the 'no attribute' saying which attribute lookup failed.

In any case, I don't thing this is a bug. It sounds like a result of the unpredictability of cleanup order at interpreter shutdown: you're encountering a situation where the 'Person' reference has already been deleted from the module namespace before the __del__ method for one of the Person instances gets called; so the 'Person' name lookup in the __del__ method fails. You could get around this by replacing 'Person' with 'type(self)' in __del__.

[amauryfa]

See also this warning message: http://docs.python.org/reference/datamodel.html#object.\_\_del__