Fatal Python error: deallocating None

[Chetan]

"Delaney, Timothy (Tim)" <tdelaney at avaya.com> writes:

> George Sakkis wrote:
> 
> > What makes the problem worse is that it's not deterministic; I can
> > restart it from (a little before) the point of crash and it doesn't
> > happen again at the same point, but it might happen further down. Now,
> > I wouldn't mind restarting it manually every time since the crashes
> > are not all that frequent; problem is, it's supposed to be a
> > long-running process that will probably take days to finish normally,
> > so I want it to run overnight too. Any hints ?
> 
> None should *never* be deallocated, so it sounds like it's not being
> INCREFed correctly somewhere. Extension module, etc ...
> 
> Tim Delaney
Or incorrectly DECREFed, perhaps?

-Chetan