This could be an interesting error
MRAB
python at mrabarnett.plus.com
Sun Aug 31 17:53:01 EDT 2014
On 2014-08-31 22:02, Seymore4Head wrote:
> import math
> import random
> import sys
>
> ex='Hey buddy get away from the car'
> newex = ex.split()
> sentence=""
>
> print (newex)
> wait = input (" Wait")
>
> def pigword(test):
> for x in range(len(test)):
> if test[x] in "AEIOUaeiou":
> stem = test [x:]
> prefix = test [:x]
> pigword = stem + prefix + "ay"
> print ("Stem ",stem)
> print ("Prefix",prefix)
> print (pigword)
> break
> return (pigword)
>
> for x in range(len(newex)):
> sentence = sentence + pigword(newex[x])+ " "
> print (sentence)
> wait = input (" Wait")
>
> The program seems to work and it does work with everything I have
> tried so far. The one exception is if you change "the" to "my" (in
> the first line) the program crashes.
>
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "C:\Documents and
> Settings\Administrator\Desktop\Functions\test.py", line 25, in
> <module>
> sentence = sentence + pigword(newex[x])+ " "
> File "C:\Documents and
> Settings\Administrator\Desktop\Functions\test.py", line 22, in pigword
> return (pigword)
> UnboundLocalError: local variable 'pigword' referenced before
> assignment
>>>>
>
'my' doesn't contain a vowel, therefore the condition of the 'if'
statement in 'pigword' is never true, therefore it never binds to the
name 'pigword'.
BTW, you have a function called 'pigword' that has a local name also
called 'pigword'. Try not to do that, because you could easily confuse
yourself.
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