From fd1aa87af0a0b05e4c899c63a85fc23affe08f1b 2010-07-26 01:40:12
From: Fernando Perez <Fernando.Perez@berkeley.edu>
Date: 2010-07-26 01:40:12
Subject: [PATCH] Ensure crash handler works even when app isn't fully configured yet.

In such a case, the ipython_dir may not have been computed yet, so we
must avoid calling isdir() on a possibly None variable.

---

diff --git a/IPython/core/crashhandler.py b/IPython/core/crashhandler.py
index 5c9c3ab..00f0a68 100644
--- a/IPython/core/crashhandler.py
+++ b/IPython/core/crashhandler.py
@@ -115,12 +115,11 @@ class CrashHandler(object):
 
         # Use this ONLY for developer debugging (keep commented out for release)
         #color_scheme = 'Linux'   # dbg
-        
         try:
             rptdir = self.app.ipython_dir
         except:
             rptdir = os.getcwd()
-        if not os.path.isdir(rptdir):
+        if rptdir is None or not os.path.isdir(rptdir):
             rptdir = os.getcwd()
         report_name = os.path.join(rptdir,self.crash_report_fname)
         # write the report filename into the instance dict so it can get