[Zope] Re: Using builtin "type" function in a Python FS product

[Derrick 'dman' Hudson]

On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 09:14:31PM +0200, Gilles Lenfant wrote:
| Is there changes in this usual Python builtin ?

No.

| if type(x) == types.UnicodeType:

| Error Type: UnboundLocalError
| Error Value: local variable 'type' referenced before assignment
| 
| What did I miss ?


>>> def demonstrate_programmer_error() :
...     type("a string")
...     type = "some other object"
... 
>>> demonstrate_programmer_error()
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
  File "<stdin>", line 2, in demonstrate_programmer_error
UnboundLocalError: local variable 'type' referenced before assignment
>>> 


Don't assign to 'type' in your method.  Use a different name for the
local variable.

-D

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