unexpected ride error: 'DataLoader' object has no attribute 'is_alive'

[Bryan Oakley]

Has anyone seen this error before? I recently did an hg pull followed
by an hg update, and when I run ride I get this error:

File "/home/boakley/dev/ride/hg/src/robotide/application/application.py",
line 74, in _load_suite
while loader.is_alive():
AttributeError: 'DataLoader' object has no attribute 'is_alive'

Sure enough, when I grep through the sources I don't see anywhere
where is_alive() is defined.

[Bulkan]

is_alive() is a method on a threading.Thread object  [1]  I'm not sure whey you're getting that error

[1] http://docs.python.org/library/threading.html#threading.Thread.is_alive

[Janne Härkönen]

Forgot to reply also to the list.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Janne Härkönen <janne.t....@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, Jan 1, 2010 at 7:17 PM
Subject: Re: unexpected ride error: 'DataLoader' object has no
attribute 'is_alive'

To: oak...@bardo.clearlight.com

On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 7:21 PM, Bryan Oakley
<oak...@bardo.clearlight.com> wrote:
> AttributeError: 'DataLoader' object has no attribute 'is_alive'
>
> Sure enough, when I grep through the sources I don't see anywhere
> where is_alive() is defined.

is_alive is method of threading.Thread, which DataLoader inherits. It
seems however that in Python versions older than 2.6, name of this
method is isAlive (which also works in 2.6). I will correct this
promptly.

thanks for reporting the issue,
__janne