Why am I getting AttributeError: Object has no attribute

This may also occur if your using slots in class and have not added this new attribute in slots yet.

class xyz(object):
"""
class description

"""

__slots__ = ['abc', 'ijk']

def __init__(self):
   self.abc = 1
   self.ijk = 2
   self.pqr = 6 # This will throw error 'AttributeError: <name_of_class_object> object has no attribute 'pqr'

These kind of bugs are common when Python multi-threading. What happens is that, on interpreter tear-down, the relevant module (myThread in this case) goes through a sort-of del myThread.

The call self.sample() is roughly equivalent to myThread.__dict__["sample"](self). But if we're during the interpreter's tear-down sequence, then its own dictionary of known types might've already had myThread deleted, and now it's basically a NoneType - and has no 'sample' attribute.

If you’re using python 3+ this may also occur if you’re using private variables that start with double underscore, e.g., self.__yourvariable. Just something to take note of for some of you who may run into this issue.

Your indentation is goofed, and you've mixed tabs and spaces. Run the script with python -tt to verify.