(noob alert) why doesn't this work?

[Diez B. Roggisch]

> 
> The error thrown is: UnboundLocalError: local variable 'title' referenced
> before assignment

That should be pretty obvious: The UnboundLocalError comes up when you try
to access a variable that hasn't been assigned a value before. E.g try this
in an interactive python session:

foo = "hello"
print foo
print bar     # This will raise UnboundLocalError 

Now in your code, you have a conditional setting of diverse variables. So
only if 

if 'Title' in line:
   title = line[6:-1]

executes, a title is there. Later, you _always_ use title. So you have to do
it like this:

title = "Unknown" # or empty or whatever
if 'Title' in line:
   title = line[6:-1]

Then title will always be there.

The reason that it works for _one_ but not for all is simply that by chance
the one file _had_ a title, but at least one of all the files hadn't. So it
crashes. If you'd only try that file, it would also crash with only one
file.
-- 
Regards,

Diez B. Roggisch