redawgts wrote: > 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.
Move the "f = file(self.filename, 'rb')" above the try:. If opening the file happens to throw an exception, then the assignment will never happen and there will be no 'f' to close. -- Robert Kern "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth." -- Umberto Eco -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
