Wadda ya mean it's not defined? Impossible Error?

[David Gilbert]

Not the case here.  the function is being called by the following code
snippet:

    files = []
    sampdef = {}
    for i in range(2,len(sys.argv)):
        files.append(sys.argv[i]+("/%04s/%02s" % (year, month)) +
"/%d/%02d%02d.log")
        sampdef[('+', i)] = []
        sampdef[('-', i)] = []

    print files

    samples = {}
    skip = 1

    minCache = {}

    names = ingestMapfile("/u/dgilbert/rules/hadrian3.rules.map")

    samples = parseLogs(files, names)

... and "print files" produces the following output:

['2/2001/05/%d/%02d%02d.log', '3/2001/05/%d/%02d%02d.log']

Adonis wrote:

> just initialize paths; like in C/C++ (in idea)
> def parseLogs(paths = '', custs):  # should initialize path to NULL
>
> and your error should go away...
>
> David Gilbert wrote:
>
> > I'm getting what appears to be an impossible error.  Here's a code
> > snippet:
> >
> > def parseLogs(paths, custs):
> >
> >     ipfRecord = re.compile("^([0-9]+)[  ]+([0-9]+)[
> > ]+([0-9a-z]+)([+-])")
> >
> >     last = {}
> >     for i in range(len(paths)):             # Create start times
> >         ... and so on.
> >
> > Here's the error snippet:
> >
> >   File "../devel/ditty/bandsaw2.py", line 37, in parseLogs
> >     for i in range(len(paths)):             # Create start times
> > UnboundLocalError: local variable 'paths' referenced before assignment
> >
> > Just when should "paths" be assigned?
> >
> > Dave.