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Re: This could be an interesting error

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On 31/08/2014 23:42, Seymore4Head wrote:
> On Sun, 31 Aug 2014 22:38:12 +0100, Mark Lawrence
> Unnecessary brackets?
> I tried deleting the brackets and that doesn't seem to work.  I tried
> changing the brackets to parenthesizes and that didn't work.  Although
> I would prefer brackets to parenthesizes as you don't need shift to
> type them.
>
>>>               pigword = stem + prefix + "ay"
>>>               print ("Stem ",stem)
>>>               print ("Prefix",prefix)
>>>               print (pigword)
>>>               break
>>>       return (pigword)

These            ^       ^

>>
>> This is Python so please get rid of those unnecessary brackets.  Having
>> done that assume that you have an empty test so your loop never gets
>> entered, the local pigword never gets assigned before the return hence
>> your UnboundLocalError.
>>

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My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask
what you can do for our language.

Mark Lawrence

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This could be an interesting error Seymore4Head <Seymore4Head@Hotmail.invalid> - 2014-08-31 17:02 -0400
  Re: This could be an interesting error Seymore4Head <Seymore4Head@Hotmail.invalid> - 2014-08-31 17:07 -0400
  Re: This could be an interesting error Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-08-31 22:38 +0100
    Re: This could be an interesting error Seymore4Head <Seymore4Head@Hotmail.invalid> - 2014-08-31 18:04 -0400
      Re: This could be an interesting error Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-08-31 23:26 +0100
    Re: This could be an interesting error Seymore4Head <Seymore4Head@Hotmail.invalid> - 2014-08-31 18:42 -0400
      Re: This could be an interesting error Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-09-01 00:21 +0100
        Re: This could be an interesting error Seymore4Head <Seymore4Head@Hotmail.invalid> - 2014-08-31 20:08 -0400
          Re: This could be an interesting error Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-09-01 01:56 +0100
            Re: This could be an interesting error Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-09-01 12:53 +1000
              Re: This could be an interesting error Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-09-01 07:34 +0100
          Re: This could be an interesting error Ned Batchelder <ned@nedbatchelder.com> - 2014-08-31 22:12 -0400
            Re: This could be an interesting error Seymore4Head <Seymore4Head@Hotmail.invalid> - 2014-08-31 22:54 -0400
              Re: This could be an interesting error Larry Hudson <orgnut@yahoo.com> - 2014-08-31 21:55 -0700
                Re: This could be an interesting error Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-09-01 15:12 +1000
                Re: This could be an interesting error Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2014-08-31 23:53 -0700
  Re: This could be an interesting error MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2014-08-31 22:53 +0100
    Re: This could be an interesting error Seymore4Head <Seymore4Head@Hotmail.invalid> - 2014-08-31 18:07 -0400
      Re: This could be an interesting error Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-09-01 12:12 +1000
        Re: This could be an interesting error Seymore4Head <Seymore4Head@Hotmail.invalid> - 2014-08-31 22:13 -0400
        Re: This could be an interesting error Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> - 2014-09-01 19:25 +1200
  Re: This could be an interesting error Michael Torrie <torriem@gmail.com> - 2014-08-31 16:10 -0600
    Re: This could be an interesting error Seymore4Head <Seymore4Head@Hotmail.invalid> - 2014-08-31 18:31 -0400
    Re: This could be an interesting error Seymore4Head <Seymore4Head@Hotmail.invalid> - 2014-08-31 20:04 -0400
      Re: This could be an interesting error MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2014-09-01 01:23 +0100
        Re: This could be an interesting error Seymore4Head <Seymore4Head@Hotmail.invalid> - 2014-08-31 20:35 -0400
      Re: This could be an interesting error Michael Torrie <torriem@gmail.com> - 2014-08-31 22:15 -0600
      Re: This could be an interesting error Michael Torrie <torriem@gmail.com> - 2014-08-31 22:52 -0600

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