Re: This could be an interesting error

[MRAB]

On 2014-08-31 22:02, Seymore4Head wrote:

import math
import random
import sys

ex='Hey buddy get away from the car'
newex = ex.split()
sentence=""

print (newex)
wait = input ("          Wait")

def pigword(test):
     for x in range(len(test)):
         if test[x] in "AEIOUaeiou":
             stem = test [x:]
             prefix = test [:x]
             pigword = stem + prefix + "ay"
             print ("Stem ",stem)
             print ("Prefix",prefix)
             print (pigword)
             break
     return (pigword)

for x in range(len(newex)):
     sentence = sentence + pigword(newex[x])+ " "
     print (sentence)
     wait = input ("          Wait")

The program seems to work and it does work with everything I have
tried so far.  The one exception is if you change "the" to "my" (in
the first line) the program crashes.


Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "C:\Documents and
Settings\Administrator\Desktop\Functions\test.py", line 25, in
<module>
     sentence = sentence + pigword(newex[x])+ " "
   File "C:\Documents and
Settings\Administrator\Desktop\Functions\test.py", line 22, in pigword
     return (pigword)
UnboundLocalError: local variable 'pigword' referenced before
assignment

'my' doesn't contain a vowel, therefore the condition of the 'if'
statement in 'pigword' is never true, therefore it never binds to the
name 'pigword'.

BTW, you have a function called 'pigword' that has a local name also
called 'pigword'. Try not to do that, because you could easily confuse
yourself.
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