From a57836f1eb7ecf5b7bb83441ec2908806b94cedc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: hpk <none@none>
Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 10:56:40 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] [svn r63060] execnet really needs to improve its
 bootstrapping

--HG--
branch : trunk
---
 py/execnet/gateway.py | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/py/execnet/gateway.py b/py/execnet/gateway.py
index 69aa8df3f..2e3b2d08b 100644
--- a/py/execnet/gateway.py
+++ b/py/execnet/gateway.py
@@ -330,7 +330,12 @@ class Gateway(object):
         self._cleanup.unregister(self)
         self._stopexec()
         self._stopsend()
-        py._com.pyplugins.notify("gateway_exit", self)
+        try:
+            py._com.pyplugins.notify("gateway_exit", self)
+        except NameError: 
+            # on the remote side 'py' is not imported 
+            # and so we can't notify (XXX: make execnet synchronous) 
+            pass
 
     def _stopsend(self):
         self._send(None)