From 21f0adc34617a651f169968869851e34e787f24b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Berker Peksag <berker.peksag@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2018 22:04:08 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] Fix AttributeError when --reload was not passed (#1806)

Fixes #1805
---
 docs/source/news.rst     | 7 +++++++
 gunicorn/workers/base.py | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/docs/source/news.rst b/docs/source/news.rst
index 3d90aead..8f61b9c8 100644
--- a/docs/source/news.rst
+++ b/docs/source/news.rst
@@ -2,6 +2,13 @@
 Changelog
 =========
 
+19.x / not released
+===================
+
+- fix: prevent raising :exc:`AttributeError` when ``--reload`` is not passed
+  in case of a :exc:`SyntaxError` raised from the WSGI application.
+  (:issue:`1805`, :pr:`1806`)
+
 19.8.1 / 2018/04/30
 ===================
 
diff --git a/gunicorn/workers/base.py b/gunicorn/workers/base.py
index ce40796f..881efa0f 100644
--- a/gunicorn/workers/base.py
+++ b/gunicorn/workers/base.py
@@ -137,7 +137,7 @@ class Worker(object):
         try:
             self.wsgi = self.app.wsgi()
         except SyntaxError as e:
-            if self.cfg.reload == 'off':
+            if not self.cfg.reload:
                 raise
 
             self.log.exception(e)