Great point Karen. It hadn't occurred to me that it could be a later occurrence that could lead to python thinking it was local. Later: except ValueError, KeyError
After changing it to: except (ValueError, KeyError) the issue is resolved. Thanks so much! Casey On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 11:20 AM, Karen Tracey <kmtra...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 11:09 AM, Casey Greene <csgre...@princeton.edu> wrote: >> I have this very baffling error that I'm dealing with at the moment. >> I'm maintaining someone else's code and I'm getting this error for >> some queries with a try, except block in a view. It seems that the >> queries that lead to the error are ones where there is, in fact, a >> KeyError. I've actually manged to narrow it down to a pretty simple >> test case though. Within the view, I can do this (first few lines): >> >> def gene_view(request, slug=None, gene=None, org=None, template=None): >> print(KeyError) >> >> and I get this exception with django 1.4 (if it matters): >> UnboundLocalError at /predictions/gene/ >> local variable 'KeyError' referenced before assignment > > Python thinks KeyError is a local variable, thus it sounds like code > in the view subsequent to where KeyError is caught makes an assignment > to KeyError. So search later in the view for where KeyError is > mis-assigned. > > Karen > -- > http://tracey.org/kmt/ > > -- > 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. > -- 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.
