Python error: AttributeError: __exit__

I just had a 30 minutes worth of debugging on a stupid mistake I made. I wanted to check the free space on the target server before I actually start to do the cloning of a database in the python framework we wrote for automating DBA tasks. The check was pretty simple:

But this raised an error: AttributeError: __exit__

I’ve spent almost 30 minutes when I realized the os.statvfs returns and “old style” object which doesn’t have __exit__ method by default. [1]

Changed the code to not use with [2] fixed the problem:

[1] object type in Python: http://docs.python.org/2/library/functions.html#object

[2] read more about with statement: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0343/

You might like these too

Solr python interface – Sunburnt fork I forked tow (Toby White, gratitude for his great work) sunburnt repository from github because I needed range facet funcionality and the workaround (...
Priority queue in Redis aka ZPOP Redis list is great to use it as a processing queue. So great that it sort of became the standard and many people using that instead of dedicated queu...
Sunburnt Solr spatial filter support I've added spatial filtering to the sunburnt library. The feature is now available with filter_spatial function. Example usage Currently this will...