I have a python script that runs on my webserver every fifteen minutes. It has run for several months with absolutely no problems. Suddenly, yesterday morning I got an email from cron with an import error for sre_constants (see below)
I logged in with ssh, manually ran the script and got the same error. started a Python interpreter shell, did "import sre_constants" and got no error. Exited, then ran the script again...and got an error importing 'string'. I manually started up Python interpreter again and imported string, again with no error. Then I exited and ran the script, and it ran fine with no errors. I got another such email from cron at 2:30am today ... anyone have any idea what would cause such a seemingly random problem after months of working fine? (sample traceback is below) -Jay 'import site' failed; use -v for traceback Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/local/bin/last_update", line 7, in ? import os, glob, time File "/usr/lib/python2.2/glob.py", line 4, in ? import fnmatch File "/usr/lib/python2.2/fnmatch.py", line 13, in ? import re File "/usr/lib/python2.2/re.py", line 27, in ? from sre import * File "/usr/lib/python2.2/sre.py", line 97, in ? import sre_compile File "/usr/lib/python2.2/sre_compile.py", line 15, in ? from sre_constants import * ImportError: No module named sre_constants _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
