Unhandled internal error: script has been working fine and suddenly can't run on several devices

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I’ve been running and adding edits to a task for several days without issues. Since yesterday, I suddenly cannot run the task on my several different devices that I try it on. I’ve tried uninstalling and reinstalling psychopy without any change.

I’m working on a Mac, ventura 13.4.1 (22F82). PsychoPy version 2023.1.3. The error can be found below. I’ve also attached a copy of the task. I can’t figure out if I’ve added something that caused the error?

  File “/Applications/PsychoPy.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python3.8/psychopy/app/builder/builder.py”, line 1248, in runFile
  File “/Applications/PsychoPy.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python3.8/psychopy/app/runner/runner.py”, line 748, in runLocal
  File “/Applications/PsychoPy.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python3.8/psychopy/scripts/psyexpCompile.py”, line 77, in generateScript
  File “/Applications/PsychoPy.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python3.8/psychopy/scripts/psyexpCompile.py”, line 213, in compileScript
  File “/Applications/PsychoPy.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python3.8/psychopy/scripts/psyexpCompile.py”, line 193, in _makeTarget
  File “/Applications/PsychoPy.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python3.8/psychopy/experiment/_experiment.py”, line 280, in writeScript
  File “/Applications/PsychoPy.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python3.8/psychopy/experiment/flow.py”, line 234, in writeBody
  File “/Applications/PsychoPy.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python3.8/psychopy/experiment/routines/_base.py”, line 477, in writeMainCode
  File “/Applications/PsychoPy.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python3.8/psychopy/experiment/components/static/__init__.py”, line 103, in writeFrameCode
  File “/Applications/PsychoPy.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python3.8/psychopy/experiment/components/static/__init__.py”, line 188, in writeStopTestCode
  File “/Applications/PsychoPy.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python3.8/psychopy/experiment/components/static/__init__.py”, line 236, in writeParamUpdates
AttributeError: ‘NoneType’ object has no attribute ‘params’

BLoCKS_category_EEG_V9.psyexp (117.7 KB)

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So I discovered that this happens whenever a component is disabled for testing, in case this comes up for anyone else. It’s a shame because I wanted to be able to test with some components disabled occasionally but I’ll find a way around it!

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I’m looking at minimal demos for this kind of issue. What component did you disable? I haven’t noticed this issue and do often disable components myself.

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Sure! I had one image component and one parallel out component disabled.

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I can’t see a parallel out component in your psyexp. Which routine is it in?

Do you have any code referring to one of the disabled components?

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Ah sorry, something that isn’t in the version I uploaded but caused the same issue earlier on in the day.

With the version uploaded, on routine “object_one”, there is an image component called “object1_up” that is disabled. Removing the disabling function on that component also stopped the internal error.

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Thanks. The issue appears to be related to “set during ITI”

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To disable a component try changing this to set each repeat as well as selecting disable.

Clearly this isn’t intended behaviour, so I will continue making a minimal demo and report it.

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Interesting - that’s really helpful, thank you!