NameError Problem
Amit Patel
amitp at Xenon.Stanford.EDU
Fri Jun 18 22:32:54 EDT 1999
Jonathon <jblake at eskimo.com> wrote:
|
| I'm writing a long << 25K line >> script to verify data from a
| database.
|
| The following bit of script is giving me a NameError, and
| I can't figure out why.
|
| datafile = open ( the_data_file_is, "r" )
| new_datafile = open ( the_temp_data_file_is, "w" )
| line_kounter = 0
| while line_kounter < 50000
| line_kounter = line_kounter + 1
| templine = datafile.readline(line_kounter)
| validate_line = templine
| if ( the_file_is == "john_www.db" ) :
| temp_record_id = int(validate_line[2:18])
| temp_country = strip(validate_line[20:50])
| elif ( the_file_is == "jan_www.db " ):
| temp_record_id = int(validate_line[2:10])
| temp_country = strip(validate_line[12:20])
| print temp_record_id
You have an 'if' and then some 'elif's. However, if the_file_is does
not match any of the strings, then temp_record_id does not get set,
and you get a NameError. That's probably what's happening.
One thing to check: |
v
| elif ( the_file_is == "jan_www.db " ):
^
|
Did you mean to put this space here?
- Amit
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