Thank you. That was exactly the issue. I renamed the local variable.
On Jul 20, 2:04 pm, Ian Clelland <clell...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 1:14 PM, ydjango <traderash...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Occasionally I see this error in my app, > > > UnboundLocalError: local variable 'settings' referenced before > > assignment > > > I have in my views .py > > > from django.conf import settings > > ....other imports... > > > def new_view(request): > > if not request.user.is_authenticated(): > > return HttpResponseRedirect(settings.ENV_URL) <-=== this > > is where error is thrown. > > ....... > > > What could be the reason? How can I prevent from occurring. > > > I am using django 1.1, python 2.5 and mod_wsgi > > If, later in your view function, you have an assignment to settings, > something like > > settings = "abcde" > > then, when the Python parser first examines your function, it will classify > settings as a local variable, regardless of whether it is imported above or > not. Accessing that local variable before its first assignment will be > considered an error, and Python will refuse to compile the function. > > To fix this, you should either put "global settings" at the top of your > function (if you really do want to overwrite it), or remove the assignment > to the 'settings' variable (if you don't), or change the name of the > variable you assign to (if it was an accident). > > -- > Regards, > Ian Clelland > <clell...@gmail.com> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
