"redawgts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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>I keep getting this error "local variable 'f' referenced before
> assignment" in the finally block when I run the following code.
>
> try:
> f = file(self.filename, 'rb')
> f.seek(DATA_OFFSET)
> self.__data = f.read(DATA_SIZE)
> self.isDataLoaded = True
> except:
> self.isDataLoaded = False
> finally:
> f.close()
>
> Can someone tell me what's wrong with the code? Am I doing something
> wrong? I'm somewhat new to python but this makes sense to me.
If the call to file raises an exception, then variable f won't have been
created.
Here's a simple example:
def f():
throw 42
try:
x = f()
except:
print x
Try it and see what happens. While you're at it, you might try to figure
out what you would like it to print.
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