Re: [Pythoncard-devel] Error handling - what's the right thing to do.

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Alex Tweedly wrote on 05/12/2005 07:28:24 PM:

> 
> Apologies if this is a dumb question, but I'm not sure how best to 
> handle this error condition.
> 
> I discovered that if you start a Pythoncard script when the main 
> script's resource file is missing, you get an error condition; the code 
> in model.py/internationalResourceName() assumes that there will be at 
> least one matching resource file.When there isn't, it tried to use an 
> un-initialized variable .... clearly not the right thing to do.
> 
> It's easy enough to detect the situation - but what should we then do ?


I'm seeing this error when I launch the new Resource Editor .3, even 
though
it clearly does have a Resource File. 

Here is the traceback:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File 
"//Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.4/lib/python2.4/site-packages/wx-2.6-mac-unicode/wx/_core.py", 
line 11904, in <lambda>
    lambda event: event.callable(*event.args, **event.kw) )
  File "resourceEditor.py", line 168, in on_initialize
    self.propertyEditorWindow = model.childWindow(self, PropertyEditor)
  File "/OMS/dev/pythonPackages/PythonCard/model.py", line 208, in 
childWindow
    filename = internationalResourceName(base)
  File "/OMS/dev/pythonPackages/PythonCard/model.py", line 178, in 
internationalResourceName
    return filename
UnboundLocalError: local variable 'filename' referenced before assignment