HELP:UnboundLocalError: local variable '_nntp' referenced before assignment
Peter Moscatt
pgmoscatt at optushome.com.au
Sat Mar 19 03:37:16 EST 2005
Diez B. Roggisch wrote:
> Peter Moscatt wrote:
>> UnboundLocalError: local variable '_nntp' referenced before assignment
>
> This pretty much says what your problem is: you haven't a variable called
> _nntp
>
>> def callconnect():
>> if b["text"]=="Connect":
>> _nntp =
>>
>
nntplib.NNTP(_global.servername,int(_global.portnumber),_global.userid,_global.userpassword)
>> if(_nntp):
>> b["text"]="Disconnect"
>>
>> elif b["text"]=="Disconnect":
>> _nntp.quit()
>
> And here we see why: In the Disconnect-case, where is that _nntp supposed
> to come from? I'm not sure what you want here, as you seem to rely on
> global variables very much, but to me the whole elif-block is bogus. You
> unecessarily communicate over b['text']
>
> Do it like this:
>
> def callconnect():
> if b["text"]=="Connect":
> _nntp =
>
nntplib.NNTP(_global.servername,int(_global.portnumber),_global.userid,_global.userpassword)
> if(_nntp):
> _nntp.quit()
>
>
G'Day Diez,
Thanks mate.... yes, that did the trick. I guess why I am using those
globals is because I really need them to be seen by other modules.
Thanks again for the help.
Pete
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