applied modified patch (fix ros#17)

meyerj · Nov 5, 2012 · 8d57298 · 8d57298
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diff --git a/tools/roslaunch/src/roslaunch/__init__.py b/tools/roslaunch/src/roslaunch/__init__.py
@@ -37,6 +37,12 @@
 import sys
 import traceback
 
+# monkey-patch to suppress threading error message in Python 2.7.3
+# see http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13193278/understand-python-threading-bug
+if sys.version_info[:3] == (2, 7, 3):
+    import threading
+    threading._DummyThread._Thread__stop = lambda _dummy: None
+
 import rospkg
 
 from . import core as roslaunch_core