Pycharm profession error running debugger 'thread' has no attribute 'start_new_thread'

Hi,

Might be issues with helpers. Could you please reinstall while also deleting the associated [PyCharm 2020.2 directories](https://www.jetbrains.com/help/pycharm/directories-used-by-the-ide-to-store-settings-caches-plugins-and-logs.html) ?

Hello, I ran into the same error on Ubuntu machine, tried reinstall and deleting directories, but still the same error.

I added a line "print(type(thread_module), dir(thread_module))" at pydev_monkey.py:810 and see:

<class 'module'> ['LOGGER', 'PARSER', '__builtins__', '__cached__', '__doc__', '__file__', '__loader__', '__name__', '__package__', '__spec__', 'agent', 'argparse', 'environment', 'get_cluster_def', 'logging', 'main', 'multiprocessing', 'os', 'run_worker', 'signal', 'sys', 'tf', 'time']

whatever this 'module' is, it's not a threading.Thread. So I modified method

def patch_thread_modules():
for t in threading_modules_to_patch:
if isinstance(t, threading.Thread):
patch_thread_module(t)
else:
print(type(t), dir(t))

It seems to fix the problem. And prints

<class 'module'> ['LOGGER', 'PARSER', '__builtins__', '__cached__', '__doc__', '__file__', '__loader__', '__name__', '__package__', '__spec__', 'agent', 'argparse', 'environment', 'get_cluster_def', 'logging', 'main', 'multiprocessing', 'os', 'run_worker', 'signal', 'sys', 'tf', 'time']
<class 'module'> ['Barrier', 'BoundedSemaphore', 'BrokenBarrierError', 'Condition', 'Event', 'ExceptHookArgs', 'Lock', 'RLock', 'Semaphore', 'TIMEOUT_MAX', 'Thread', 'ThreadError', 'Timer', 'WeakSet', '_CRLock', '_DummyThread', '_HAVE_THREAD_NATIVE_ID', '_MainThread', '_PyRLock', '_RLock', '__all__', '__builtins__', '__cached__', '__doc__', '__file__', '__loader__', '__name__', '__package__', '__spec__', '_active', '_active_limbo_lock', '_after_fork', '_allocate_lock', '_count', '_counter', '_dangling', '_deque', '_enumerate', '_islice', '_limbo', '_main_thread', '_make_invoke_excepthook', '_newname', '_os', '_profile_hook', '_set_sentinel', '_shutdown', '_shutdown_locks', '_shutdown_locks_lock', '_start_new_thread', '_sys', '_time', '_trace_hook', 'activeCount', 'active_count', 'currentThread', 'current_thread', 'enumerate', 'excepthook', 'get_ident', 'get_native_id', 'local', 'main_thread', 'setprofile', 'settrace', 'stack_size']

@Sevenseaswander

Does it happen with any code?
What PyCharm version do you use?

I had the same issue

the problem was:
one of the files in the project i wanted to debug was called: thread.py

weird things happen when using reserved words

Thanks Yarden for coming back to update this thread. I had a file named thread.py in my working directory also, removing it fixed it.

Thank Yarden. It's fixed

I'm experiencing this problem with PyCharm 2022.3.3

I'm trying to debug a Django project with a runserver and there are no files in my project called thread.py

The fix from Elsey works so far and this is some relevant output....

Connected to pydev debugger (build 223.8836.43)
<class 'module'> ['__doc__', '__file__', '__loader__', '__name__', '__package__', '__path__', '__spec__']
<class 'module'> ['Barrier', 'BoundedSemaphore', 'BrokenBarrierError', 'Condition', 'Event', 'Lock', 'RLock', 'Semaphore', 'TIMEOUT_MAX', 'Thread', 'ThreadError', 'Timer', 'WeakSet', '_CRLock', '_DummyThread', '_MainThread', '_PyRLock', '_RLock', '__all__', '__builtins__', '__cached__', '__doc__', '__file__', '__loader__', '__name__', '__package__', '__spec__', '_active', '_active_limbo_lock', '_after_fork', '_allocate_lock', '_count', '_counter', '_dangling', '_deque', '_enumerate', '_format_exc', '_islice', '_limbo', '_main_thread', '_newname', '_os', '_profile_hook', '_set_sentinel', '_shutdown', '_shutdown_locks', '_shutdown_locks_lock', '_start_new_thread', '_sys', '_time', '_trace_hook', 'activeCount', 'active_count', 'currentThread', 'current_thread', 'enumerate', 'get_ident', 'local', 'main_thread', 'setprofile', 'settrace', 'stack_size']
<class 'module'> ['__doc__', '__file__', '__loader__', '__name__', '__package__', '__path__', '__spec__']
<class 'module'> ['Barrier', 'BoundedSemaphore', 'BrokenBarrierError', 'Condition', 'Event', 'Lock', 'RLock', 'Semaphore', 'TIMEOUT_MAX', 'Thread', 'ThreadError', 'Timer', 'WeakSet', '_CRLock', '_DummyThread', '_MainThread', '_PyRLock', '_RLock', '__all__', '__builtins__', '__cached__', '__doc__', '__file__', '__loader__', '__name__', '__package__', '__spec__', '_active', '_active_limbo_lock', '_after_fork', '_allocate_lock', '_count', '_counter', '_dangling', '_deque', '_enumerate', '_format_exc', '_islice', '_limbo', '_main_thread', '_newname', '_os', '_profile_hook', '_set_sentinel', '_shutdown', '_shutdown_locks', '_shutdown_locks_lock', '_start_new_thread', '_sys', '_time', '_trace_hook', 'activeCount', 'active_count', 'currentThread', 'current_thread', 'enumerate', 'get_ident', 'local', 'main_thread', 'setprofile', 'settrace', 'stack_size']

I've got same error but I can fix with removing "thread.py" from my directory.

Try to do 

pip uninstall thread